Luisita farmers pushed into sugar block farms

MILITANT peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) on Tuesday said Hacienda Luisita farmers are being pushed to the wall by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) leaving them with no option but to enter into another one-sided and onerous non-land transfer scheme in the vast sugar estate owned by the President Benigno Aquino 3rd’s family.

“Hacienda Luisita farm workers are once again being fooled and pushed to the wall by the Cojuangco-Aquino controlled DAR. They are offered with a very expensive tiny portion of the land and then enticed by Aquino’s DAR with sweet and juicy promises of so-called support services if, they will enter into the sugar block farming scheme,” Antonio Flores, KMP secretary general, said in a statement.