MANILA: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on Friday (Jul 7) wrote off US$1.04 billion in land-related debt owed by more than half a million farmers, a move aimed at boosting food production. The 'New Agrarian Emancipation Act' he signed into law waived all property-related debt owed by farmers who had
MANILA: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on Friday wrote off US$1.04 billion in land-related debt owed by more than half a million farmers, a move aimed at boosting food production.
"We know these farmers do not have the means to pay this huge debt. So putting it under the government's tab is the right thing to do," Marcos said at a signing ceremony at the presidential palace. Under a law passed about a year after Marcos' father and namesake was toppled in a bloodless"People Power" revolt in 1986, about 4.8 million hectares of plots were distributed to almost three million landless farmers.Congress passed the new legislation because nearly 1.2 million hectares of redistributed farmland had gone unpaid for, with the farm sector's contribution to the country's economic output shrinking.
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