Tag: farmers
Why is rice so expensive while farm workers grow hungrier?
Let all good people stand together for social justice in action, and do good and oppose evil, and with real faith
How did inflation affect minimum wage earners?
Bulatlat collected data on real wages from January 2023 to June 2024 in time for President Marcos’ third State of the Nation Address (SONA)
Peasant group decries lack of assistance for El Niño-stricken local food...
Western Visayas is the most affected region with P687.7 million ($12.3M) in agricultural damage, followed by Mimaropa and Cagayan Valley
Pope Francis calls for recognition of farmers as key contributors to...
Pope Francis pointed out the significance of acknowledging their human, spiritual, and social dimensions and providing them with support
Filipino farmers call for immediate land distribution
Task Force Mapalad emphasized the urgency of President Marcos's intervention to ensure the rapid distribution of CARP-covered lands
How land tenure can mitigate climate vulnerabilities of agrarian beneficiaries
What secure land tenure means and looks like for organized agrarian reform beneficiaries under the climate crisis.
Groups doubt new DA chief’s sincerity in solving agri problems
Frabelle is involved in the controversial Manila Bay reclamation projects, particularly in Bacoor, Cavite, and Navotas City.
On rice shortage
Yet what happened, was farmers were left to buy the cheapest although inapt seedlings. With no drainage, irrigation flooded rice lands
Marcos’ new security policy alarms farm workers
The group said said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has further justified state tyranny in his government’s counter-insurgency policy
Farmers: No to intel funds, yes to social services
“These proposed confidential and intelligence funds should be re-channeled to social services instead,” KMP said.
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