JAKARTA, Indonesia – The smog engulfing several provinces in Kalimantan and Sumatra Islands are already at threatening levels causing the death of a minor last 10 September 2015.
The pollutant fumes have caused decreased air quality and an increase in number of Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) cases in several communities. Each year, there is an increase […]
Agricultural workers under the national federation Unyon ng mga Mangggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) slammed President BS Aquino’s alter-egos at the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) for dangling billions of pesos in public funds to finance sugar block farms, a new devious scheme favoring business interests […]
MANILA, Philippines – As the country awaits the last State of the Nation Address (SONA) by President Benigno S. Aquino III set next week, the Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (Union of Agricultural Workers or UMA) held its own “state of farmworkers report” in a public forum dubbed as “State of (Hacienda) Luisita” held last […]
The national federation of agricultural workers fears that sugar workers would be paid even less this crop year as the tariff for imported sugar would go down to just five percent because of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Agricultural workers remain the poorest of the rural poor, according to the national […]
Her father used to be a seasonal sugar agricultural worker (sacada) in Hacienda Luisita and even in Batangas up to the 1980’s. Her mother like him is a landless peasant. The back breaking work and very low pay of a sacada which was immortalized in the movie “Sacada” in the 70’s perpetuate one into endless […]
Joint statement issued by the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC); Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI); Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC); People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS); PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP); Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP); Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) of Indonesia; Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA) of Malaysia; Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT); Roots […]