By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“There is no product to export (once) we’ll be flooded with (ASEAN products); all the farmers will be jobless here,” said Phil Export XI executive director Conrado T. Hernaez in a press conference at Marco Polo Hotel Wednesday.
Usurious schemes and failure of the government to support farmers bury them in a vicious debt cycle. Farmers are left fending for themselves.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
DAVAO CITY (davaotoday.com) -- A farmer last seen beaten and forcibly taken allegedly by soldiers on July 4 is missing, according to the human rights group Karapatan. Witnesses saw Alvin Lopez, 25, a farmer and resident of sitio Maot, Barangay San Jose in Monkayo town of Compostela Valley Province hogtied, and forced into a military vehicle during a military operation. Alvin's mother, Erlinda, 46, sought Karapatan's help to locate his son. She filed a complaint Tuesday before the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in the region against the military's 26th Infantry Battalion based in the area. Read on.
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