Promise 90: Distribute over 1 million hectares of land under CARPER

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Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III has vowed to complete the distribution of over a million hectares of private lands during the five-year extension period of the agrarian reform law.

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The Aquino campaign platform: Action plans on Hacienda Luisita

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June 20, 2012: Farmers from Hacienda Luisita vowed to defend the Supreme Court (SC) decision on distribution of the Cojuangco-owned sugar estate in the wake of the removal from office of Chief Justice Renato Corona who voted in favor of land distribution. (Continue Reading)

June 14, 2012: Malacañang said President Aquino reiterated his commitment to agrarian reform when he met with farmer groups led by Task Force Mapalad in Malacañang on Thursday. (Continue Reading)

June 7, 2012: The Department of Agrarian Reform was ready to set into motion the distribution of Hacienda Luisita to farmworker-beneficiaries. (Continue Reading)

June 5, 2012: Agrarian reform under the Aquino administration is proceeding apace despite the huge challenges facing the program. During President Benigno S. Aquino III’s first two years, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) managed to acquire and distribute 219,069 hectares of land throughout the country, said Secretary of Agrarian Reform Virgilio de los Reyes. (Continue Reading)

June 5, 2012: Members of President Aquino's Cabinet was to meet with leaders and representatives belonging to the farmers' group Task Force Mapalad, which is marching to the Palace to seek a dialogue with the President and ask for a completion of land distribution under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. (Continue Reading)

May 3, 2012: The Supreme Court has released its much awaited “final and executory” ruling on the distribution of the 4,916-hectare Hacienda Luisita to over 6,000 farmer-beneficiaries. (Continue Reading)

April 30, 2012: To enable farmers of Hacienda Luisita go through the waiting period for their land shares, the Department of Social Welfare and Development said that it will intensify its implementation of various support services in the sugarcane plantation. (Continue Reading)

April 30, 2012: For the first time, President Aquino made a comment on the Supreme Court decision on Hacienda Luisita. He said the government is prepared to execute the decision to distribute land to the farmers. (Continue Reading)

April 28, 2012: An official of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said they are looking into the remaining 1,527 hectares of land in Hacienda Luisita, the vast agricultural estate of the Cojuangco family in Tarlac, which may still be covered by the agrarian reform program. (Continue Reading)

April 24, 2012: Here's a timeline on the decades-long struggle for agrarian reform by farmworkers in the Cojuangco family-owned Hacienda Luisita, the largest private agricultural estate in the Philippines. (Continue Reading)

April 24, 2012: A spokesman of Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) said the company will abide by the Supreme Court's decision to compensate the landowners of Hacienda Luisita based on the 1989 valuation instead of 2006 rates. (Continue Reading)

April 24, 2012: The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed its Nov. 22 ruling awarding Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita to the sugar estate’s original 6,296 farm worker beneficiaries --the number of farm hands at the time of the approval of Luisita’s stock distribution plan (SDP) in 1989 -- or their legitimate successors. (Continue Reading)

April 24, 2012: Farmworker-beneficiaries in Hacienda Luisita are expected to receive their land within 1 year, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said on Tuesday. (Continue Reading)

April 24, 2012: The Supreme Court voted 8-6 upholding its earlier decision to compensate the landowners of Hacienda Luisita based on the 1989 valuation instead of 2006 rates. (Continue Reading)

April 24, 2012: How much should government pay the Cojuangco family for Hacienda Luisita? According to Supreme Court spokesman Jose Midas Marquez, this is the last contentious issue on the hacienda to be tackled by the Supreme Court in its en banc session today. (Continue Reading)

April 18, 2012: Owners of Hacienda Luisita should be paid at least P1 million per hectare or approximately P5 billion by the government as just compensation for distributing the sugar plantation to farmer-beneficiaries, a lawyer of the estate said. (Continue Reading)

November 28, 2011: The Supreme Court has decided in farmers’ favor on the long-standing dispute over the 4,915.75-hectare Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac when it ordered that said estate owned by the family of President Benigno S. Aquino III be distributed to them. (Continue Reading)

November 28, 2011: Farmworker-beneficiaries in Hacienda Luisita could farm collectively and still get their respective individual title, said Secretary of Agrarian Reform Gil de los Reyes. (Continue Reading)