The PBB 401 rice variety stands out because it has repeatedly shown its resilience to floods, including those induced by extreme weather events.
Rice farmers cushion losses with resilient farmer-bred variety
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Farmers dare Marcos Jr. to include private lands in agrarian reform coverage
“The intent to distribute lands free of charge is ineffective at best and duplicitous at worst, in the absence of a new agrarian reform law that will allow the coverage of new private agricultural lands for distribution after CARP’s mandate to do so expired in 2014.”
Guards, armed goons open fire at Bulacan farmers
Security guards and armed goons opened fire at farmers in Sitio Ricafort, Barangay Tungkong Mangga, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan, according to Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas.
Landlords, corporations, still control vast tracts of agricultural lands – farmers
A farmers’ group debunked claims of Agrarian Reform Undersecretary Elmer Distor that “landlords and capitalists” no longer “hold sway over vast tracts of agricultural lands.”
31 years of CARP, farmers still demand real land reform
The demand of peasants and agricultural workers for land for peasants, agricultural workers, and national minorities, and not for landlords.
30 years after CARP| Farmers strengthen fight vs. landlessness, state violence
“Two years of the Duterte regime is two years of non-agrarian reform agenda, as it has yet to pass a new law to replace the expired and failed CARP.”
Peasants slam proposal to amend 30-year-old ‘bogus land reform law’
“This sinister move clearly aims to ‘zombify’ the CARP law which expired on June 30, 2014.”
30 years after CARP| Peasants strengthen fight vs. landlessness, state fascism
“Two years of the Duterte regime is two years of non-agrarian reform agenda, as it has yet to pass a new law to replace the expired and failed CARP.”
The plague of plantations
“Since its inception, the ASEAN has never been for the interest of the people, but for profit and monopoly capital. It serves to strengthen foreign control over raw materials, labor and supply chains in the region at the expense of the people and nations of Asia Pacific.”
Farmers slam expansion of plantations under Duterte gov’t
Despite the environmental degradation plantations cause and the harmful toxic chemicals they use, their proclivity for land grabbing and the low wages they pay, the Duterte administration has allocated another 1.6 million hectares for the expansion of plantations.
4 farmers dead, another wounded in land-related violence in N. Ecija
The KMP challenged the Duterte administration to give justice to the victims of the Fort Magsaysay carnage and hold the perpetrators accountable.