Mayon eruption drives 102,000 from homes, destroys ready-to-harvest rice
Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas said that most tragic are hundreds of hectares of rice that are ready for harvest had been lost. Albay farmers had been harvesting their dry season rice in April to May as the first crop of the year.
Why FMRs won’t boost agriculture
The ₱243-billion unprogrammed appropriations (UA) also serves as a massive presidential slush fund with no clear safeguards. It is notoriously known as a super-discretionary fund that does not pass muster genuine generally acceptable auditing procedures.
KMP: Cebu’s worst flooding caused by unchecked quarrying, corruption
“The devastation brought by Typhoon Tino is a grim reminder of the results of irresponsible and indiscriminate quarrying. We are witnessing a disaster worsened by plunder and government neglect,” KMP said.
Farmers lead new anti-corruption rally at Liwasang Bonifacio, Mendiola
KMP said that despite promises, no genuine agrarian reform has taken place under Marcos Jr., and that landlessness, rural poverty, and hunger continue to plague millions of farmers across the country.
KMP renews demand for repeal of rice liberalization law as palay farmgate prices drop to P8/kilo
KMP said that with farmgate palay prices dropping to as low as Php8 per kilo, piecemeal adjustments such as the DA proposals are not real solutions.
Farmers ask Marcos Jr: Raise palay price to P20
“Nalulugi ang mga magsasaka sa bawat anihan. Binibili lang ng traders sa P10 hanggang P12 kada kilo ng palay. May mas mababa pa sa P8 hanggang P10 kada kilo. Saan ka pa pupulutin niyan?” lamented KMP’s Danilo Ramos.
Batangas folk blast DA’s neglect
The complaining Batangas farmers, fisherfolk, sugarcane planters and agricultural workers tried thrice to get an audience with the DA at its central office but the department apparently was deaf to their pleas.
‘Unfairly treated’ Hacienda Luisita
Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) condemned the verdict as another injustice inflicted on thousands of landless farmers and agricultural workers at the sprawling estate. “This decision is but a continuation of what is turning out to be a litany of injustice under CARP,” it said.
Delulu on rice
The Marcos Jr. administration is twisting itself into knots for thinking that selling the nearly 400,000 metric tons (MT) of rice stowed in the warehouses of the National Food Authority (NFA) for only P20 per kilo would force retailers and wholesalers to slash their prices in order to compete with the “Bente Bigas Mo” (BBM) rice.
P20/kilo rice a desperate ploy
This P20 per kilo rice is so dirt cheap that industry players suspect government must have ordered all NFA warehouses to strip themselves of their inventory, ship them to the Visayas and sell them to consumers, with each buyer limited to only 10 kilos