MANILA, Philippines – Two years after the landmark Supreme Court decision awarding Hacienda Luisita land to farmers, desperate farmers stormed the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) compound ...

In 2017, farmers broke the walls surrounding a lot, claiming it should be part of the distribution plan. Hacienda Luisita turned over the land to Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC ...

MANILA, Philippines - Farmers’ groups from Hacienda Luisita vowed yesterday to boycott a Supreme Court-ordered referendum to determine whether they would choose stocks or parcels of the vast ...

TARLAC CITY, Philippines – Hundreds of farmers working at the Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) yesterday disclosed that they are in favor of the stock distribution plan and not the ...

TARLAC CITY—Hacienda Luisita farmers and agrarian-reform beneficiaries will take back what is rightfully and legally theirs—portions of lands fenced off by the estate management and a big ...

In 2003, Hacienda Luisita farmers, claiming a stock distribution option (SDO) failed to uplift their living conditions, filed a petition in the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to revoke the ...

The 6,000-hectare Hacienda Luisita sugar plantation is owned by ... and distributing a small portion of the shares to the tenant farmers. The Cojuangcos did both with their land.

Some farmers who were awarded lands from Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) have shifted to planting vegetables, an official of the department said on Tuesday.

Farm workers and the owners of Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) in Tarlac on Friday signed a compromise deal giving the farmers two options— to receive land parcels in the 6,453-hectare plantation or ...

This week the country commemorates the tragic shooting of protesting farmers on January 22, 1987, an incident better known as the Mendiola massacre. Along with the Hacienda Luisita massacre of ...