Thirty representatives from non-government organizations and people’s organizations in four Visayas provinces  gathered in Negros Oriental recently, to  assess and evaluate  the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms.

Tess Naz, of the Negros Oriental People’s Empowerment and Development Inc., said the activity held in Bacong, Negros Oriental, was attended by NGOs and POs like the Katarungan, the National Farmers’ Council, and the Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Kababaihan sa Kanayunan, from Negros Occidental, Iloilo, Cebu and Negros Oriental.

The assessment, led by the Save Agrarian Reform Alliance, aimed to review the  situation where genuine land reform is concerned, Naz said.

She said they  plan  courses of action to show their protest and opposition to the slow and weak  implementation of the land reform program.

She added that Undersecretary Narciso Nieto of the Department of Agrarian Reform, has yet to give farmers and agrarian reform advocacy groups a definite schedule on the installation of agrarian reform beneficiaries in the Polo Plantation estate in Tanjay City, Negros Oriental.*JFP

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