LAUR, Nueva Ecija, Philippines — President Duterte has ordered the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to determine how many hectares of land here can still be covered by land reform so farmers can own the property they are tilling. “I will declare land reform in this area next week,” he said, adding he had distributed about 60,000 land titles to beneficiaries in Boracay, Cagayan de Oro and Maguindanao. Duterte said he would also declare land reform in Sagay, Negros Occidental, where a massacre supposedly due to a land dispute occurred last year. He also mentioned the problem on insurgency, saying the rebels are using the issue of land grabbing to manipulate local residents. He said land should be given to the Filipino people to allow them to prosper.

Source: Philippine Star February 17, 2019 16:01 UTC