Rafael “Ka Paeng” Mariano, Secretary of the Department of
Agrarian Reform (DAR) said more than 28 years have passed after the implementation
of CARP [Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program], still, there are no
indications that the life of the Filipino tenant-farmer has improved.” This,
despite almost 4,802,000 hectares, or 88.6 percent of 5,415,000 hectares of
agrarian reform lands already distributed to 2,790 beneficiaries since the CARP
was implemented, he added.
Mariano said he believed the problem was rooted to
“collusion between and among landlord-oligarchs…At the end of the day, we will
go back to the issue of oligarchy and why there is a need for a genuine
agrarian reform law,” the DAR chief said. Mariano said he had been receiving
reports of farmer-cooperatives being “duped” by former landowners into forming
business ventures that only worsened the economic condition of these farmers
and in which only the landowner profited from the arrangement.
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