Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, 4,915 hectares of the Cojuangco-controlled Hacienda Luisita must be awarded to its 6,296 farmworker-beneficiaries under the government's Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), which was started by President Corazon Aquino in 1988.
But just how big is the land that will be given out to the farmers? In this visual presentation prepared by InterAksyon.com, we compared the total land area of the hacienda that will be awarded to its tillers to the country's landmarks and popular places.
The Department of Agrarian Reform on Friday started validating the identities of farm workers who are qualified to own parcels of lands in Hacienda Luisita in accordance with the recent decision of the Supreme Court.
President Benigno Aquino III finally broke his silence on the recent decision of the Supreme Court for the distribution of the Hacienda Luisita, assuring farmer-beneficiaries that the administration will "carry out the instructions" of the court order.
An activist farmers' organization that has backed the decades-long struggle of farmers in Hacienda Luisita to own the land said it was a 'grave insult' to the beneficiaries to describe the Supreme Court-ordered distribution of the vast sugar estate as a 'glowing legacy' of the late President Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino, mother of the incumbent.
The DAR chief on Thursday appealed for the full cooperation and support of all stakeholders and groups in Hacienda Luisita pending the validation and finalization of the list of beneficiaries entitled to get parcels of land based on the Supreme Court decision handed down Tuesday.
Chief Justice Renato Corona was chided for allegedly using the Supreme Court ruling to distribute Hacienda Luisita, the vast Tarlac sugar estate owned by the family of President Benigno Aquino III, to woo public sympathy ahead of the resumption of his impeachment trial in the Senate for betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution.
Malacanang vowed Thursday to ensure the implementation of the decision of the Supreme Court to distribute Hacienda Luisita, the vast sugar estate of the family of President Benigno Aquino III, to agrarian reform farmer-beneficiaries.
The Supreme Court decision to distribute to qualified farmer-beneficiaries close to 5,000 hectares of land in Hacienda Luisita is a fulfillment of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL), one of the proponents of the law in Congress said Wednesday.
Farmers from other provinces who flocked to this city to await the Supreme CourtâÂÂs final and executory ruling on Hacienda Luisita on Tuesday are happy for the HLI farmers, but anxious about how the Department of Agrarian Reform will act in their cases.
Malacanang had nothing to say on the Supreme Court's unanimous affirmation of its ruling for the total distribution of Hacienda Luisita, the vast Tarlac sugar estate owned by the family of President Benigno Aquino III.
Farmers in Barangay Balete, deep within Hacienda Luisita, were ecstatic on hearing news that the Supreme Court had unanimously affirmed its ruling for the complete distribution of the vast sugar estate of the Cojuangco clan, to which President Benigno Aquino III.
