Below are commentary I found concerning Sumilao farmers. There are more informations at Daily Tribune but it is hard for me to paste it here because they only limit 500 words per post here in youtube. DAILY TRIBUNE at tribune dot net dot ph or goole it like 'tribune philippines'.
PART 1: In 1997, when the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) granted the land to the farmers, through Certificates of Land Ownership Awards. Land owner Norberto Quisumbing contested the DAR decision, with a promise of vast improvement to the property that would also benefit the farmers.
PART 2: The DAR denied Quisumbing's pleadings, but the man had friends in high places, among them Bukidnon Gov. Carlos Fortich, who wrote to then President Fidel Ramos about the matter. Ramos' Executive Secretary Ruben Torres forthrightly had the land released to Quisumbing.
PART 3: The farmers did not give up. They staged a 28-day hunger strike right in front of the DAR central office. The whole nation watched. Ramos, the consummate "win-win" politician more Solomonic than Solomon, gave the farmers 100 hectares, Quisumbing, 44. It didn't end there.
PART 4: The Supreme Court validated Torres and awarded all 144 hectares to Quisumbing, in 1997. Two years before the first decade of the new century ends, it turns out the man has not developed the land any. Not the 24 hectares he said would be the Development Academy of Mindanao;
PART 5: ; the 67 hectares of the Bukidnon Agro-Industrial Park; the 33 hectares for Forest Development; the 20 hectares for Support Facilities that would have included a 360-room hotel, nothing. He instead sold the land to San Miguel Foods Inc., which now plans to put up a farm of 4,400 female breeder pigs and 44,000 piglets.
Below are commentary I found concerning Sumilao farmers. There are more informations at Daily Tribune but it is hard for me to paste it here because they only limit 500 words per post here in youtube. DAILY TRIBUNE at tribune dot net dot ph or goole it like 'tribune philippines'.
pnoytanda 4 years ago
PART 1: In 1997, when the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) granted the land to the farmers, through Certificates of Land Ownership Awards. Land owner Norberto Quisumbing contested the DAR decision, with a promise of vast improvement to the property that would also benefit the farmers.
pnoytanda 4 years ago
PART 2: The DAR denied Quisumbing's pleadings, but the man had friends in high places, among them Bukidnon Gov. Carlos Fortich, who wrote to then President Fidel Ramos about the matter. Ramos' Executive Secretary Ruben Torres forthrightly had the land released to Quisumbing.
pnoytanda 4 years ago
PART 3: The farmers did not give up. They staged a 28-day hunger strike right in front of the DAR central office. The whole nation watched. Ramos, the consummate "win-win" politician more Solomonic than Solomon, gave the farmers 100 hectares, Quisumbing, 44. It didn't end there.
pnoytanda 4 years ago
PART 4: The Supreme Court validated Torres and awarded all 144 hectares to Quisumbing, in 1997. Two years before the first decade of the new century ends, it turns out the man has not developed the land any. Not the 24 hectares he said would be the Development Academy of Mindanao;
pnoytanda 4 years ago
PART 5: ; the 67 hectares of the Bukidnon Agro-Industrial Park; the 33 hectares for Forest Development; the 20 hectares for Support Facilities that would have included a 360-room hotel, nothing. He instead sold the land to San Miguel Foods Inc., which now plans to put up a farm of 4,400 female breeder pigs and 44,000 piglets.
pnoytanda 4 years ago
great video, it shows how courageous the Sumilao Farmer's are.
abequilinguing 4 years ago