Farmers decry 'landgrabbing' in Mindanao

Angelo Caballero, ABS-CBN News

<p>DAVAO CITY - Over 600 farmers staged a protest in front of Lapanday Foods Corporation office in Barangay Pampanga to voice out their struggles over land rights Wednesday.</p><script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="http://img.abs-cbnnews.com/assets/galleria/galleria-1.4.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">var jQuery_1_2_9 = $.noConflict(true);(function($){ }(jQuery_1_2_9))</script><div id="galleria"><a href="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/11/16/lapanday-rally-1.jpg"><img data-description="Angelo Caballero, ABS-CBN News" data-title="Farmers decry " in="" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/11/16/lapanday-rally-1.jpg"/></a> <a href="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/11/16/lapanday-rally-2.jpg"> <img data-description="Angelo Caballero, ABS-CBN News" data-title="Farmers decry " in="" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/11/16/lapanday-rally-2.jpg"/></a> <a href="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/11/16/lapanday-rally-3.jpg"> <img data-description="Angelo Caballero, ABS-CBN News" data-title="Farmers decry " in="" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/11/16/lapanday-rally-3.jpg"/></a> <a href="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/11/16/lapanday-rally-4.jpg"> <img data-description="Angelo Caballero, ABS-CBN News" data-title="Farmers decry " in="" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/11/16/lapanday-rally-4.jpg"/></a></div><script src="https://abscbnnewsml.blob.core.windows.net/themes/default-gallery/themes/themev2/galleria-engine.js" type="text/javascript"></script><p>The agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs), who came from different parts of Mindanao want Lapanday to grant them the &quot;government-awarded land&quot; for them to return to farming and earn a living.</p><p>Thousands of farmers lost jobs when they were fired by the corporation in 2011 due to an unsigned waiver, the protesters said.</p><p>&quot;For how many years we suffer of having no income as they keep us away from our lands, not until we sign the waiver which allows them to manage the lands,&quot; Mely Yu, chairperson of Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association, Incorporated (MARBAI) said in the local dialect.</p><p>The farmers also urged Congress to pass the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill (GARB) to help them financially especially that they are still required to pay their &#x27;debts&#x27; which ballooned to over a billion pesos.</p><p>&quot;I do not know where our debts came from,&quot; Heidi Maykil, another protester, said.</p><p>Lapanday Foods Corporation has yet to issue a statement about the issue.</p>

<p>DAVAO CITY - Over 600 farmers staged a protest in front of Lapanday Foods Corporation office in Barangay Pampanga to voice out their struggles over land rights Wednesday.</p>

DAVAO CITY - Over 600 farmers staged a protest in front of Lapanday Foods Corporation office in Barangay Pampanga to voice out their struggles over land rights Wednesday.

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Farmers decry 'landgrabbing' in Mindanao

Farmers decry 'landgrabbing' in Mindanao

Angelo Caballero,

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Published Nov 16, 2016 06:25 PM PHT

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