Negros farmers demand land distribution | Sun.Star.

By Merlinda A. Pedrosa
May 4, 2012

ABOUT 300 hundred farmers joined a protest rally Thursday at the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) office in Bacolod City to break up sugar estates and distribute the land to the tillers.

Task Force Mapalad-Negros president Alberto Jayme said they want to show that the government has not proceeded to make good on its promise to distribute land to agrarian beneficiaries quickly.

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He said, since July 2001, the DAR has not made a dent on its commitment to distribute 1.093-million hectares of agricultural land to the farmers.

He added that 94 percent of these lands are privately owned and more than 33 percent of these are large landholding or properties.

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