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Reports from correspondents:
Farmers in Isabela recover seized lands

 Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

A group of farmers in isabela burned a 500-hectare plantation of commercial trees to protest the DENR�s seizure of their farmlands. These lands located along the boundaries of Echague and San Guillermo towns were subsumed by DENR into its Social Integrated Forest Management Agreement (SIFMA) program and planted to gmelina, narra and mahogany.

The farmers had long been opposing the seizure of their lands. Since 1998, they have been petitioning and holding dialogues with the local government and the DENR. But the latter merely shrugged off the farmers� grievances and responded with military operations and AFP terrorism.

Led by the Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid in San Guillermo and Echague, the farmers acted as one to recover their lands and till them again. Collectively, they cleared the plantations they burned and farmed them once more.

 


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February 2003
English Edition

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