November 6, 2008
-NEGROS ORIENTAL --Farmer-beneficiaries and their
families entered at around 5 a.m. the disputed 61-hectare former
property of the Teves family in Barangay Caranoche, Sta. Catalina and
Barangay Villareal, Bayawan City. They started putting up tents and cultivating a vacant portion of the lot.
Villareal-Caranoche Farmers' Association (VillaCarFA) president
Rolando Flores said the entry of the
FBs was an act of self-installation in view of repeated failure by the Department
of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to install them in the property which he said they already
owned since ten years ago by virtue of their certificates of landownership
award (CLOAs) issued in 1997 and 1999. [photos from AKP-images/Buck Pago] --TFM handout
Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 November 2008 )
Bukidnon Tribal Group Occupies Expired Ranch
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
29 September 2008
Bukidnon
tribal group occupies expired ranch, calls on DENR to block former ranch
lessee’s new application
Taking advantage of the planting season,
indigenous peoples from Brgy. Panalsalan and Dagumbaan in the municipality
of Maramag, Bukidnon started to build their huts and plant food in the
520-hectare fertile land that used to be a cattle ranch of former Kibawe Municipal
Mayor Ernesto Villalon.
To arrest the food shortage that hit
their barangays, a hundred members of the Panalsalan Dagumbaan Tribal
Association (PADATA) planted fruit trees and corn inside Villalon ranch pending
the approval of their Community-based Forest Management (CBFM) application for
this 520-hectare area.
