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Safety has been tightened as farmers, a businessman is fighting for the arable land Negros Occidental

Safety has been tightened as farmers, a businessman is fighting for the arable land Negros Occidental

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The confrontation is distinguished by the bitter dispute by the 22-hectare property between the businessman and the farmers who claim that the arable fields are rightly them

Negros Occidental, Philippines – the authorities accelerated the safety of the village in Talisay City, Negros Occidental, where tensions still escalate after the confrontation of a group of farmers and guards, observing the vast area of ​​agricultural land.

The confrontation was distinguished by the bitter dispute in Hacienda San Antonio Dos-Bitwa by a 22-hectare property between the businessman and farmers who claim that the arable fields are rightly them.

This movement occurred after the mayor of Talisay Neil Lizares expressed the alarm and directed the head of the city police colonel Salvador Trono to deploy law enforcement agencies in the disputed property in Barangay Dos Hermanas in Talisay, the component of the city of Negros Occidental.

Tensions increased when one of the guards, identified as Jose Alonsaga, allegedly fired a warning and indicated weapons in Barbie Jane Salumag, daughter of the beneficiary of the agrarian reform, during the Beneficiary of Agrar Confrontation with protesting farmers On Friday, January 31.

The police said that the guard was apparently angry when he saw the Salumag recording their video with her cell phone.

Colonel Rainerio de Chavez, director of the province of the Police in Negros Occidental, said he threw himself into this area when he saw a film published in social media, but to find Alonsaga.

The dispute began in August 2024, when 15 agricultural families tried to regain control of agricultural land and claimed that they had the right to expire the 22-year lease agreement.

15 families are among 26 awarded certificates of land ownership by the government in 2001 for a 50-hectare property previously belonging to the Jison family.

After trying to recover the property, farmers found their own sugar cane crops, allegedly at the order of Paul Chang, a businessman from Bacolod City, who rented the land.

The Chang Group refused to profitability, claiming that the property was bought from ARB for 3 million P. Its group presented a sales certificate allegedly signed by representatives of 15 agricultural families in 2016.

Farmers, however, fight for this, claiming that they received only 180,000 P, and that what they signed was an important extension of the lease until August 2024.

Gonzalo Lamig, 62, leader of protesting farmers: “What we signed in 2016 was only the renewal of their lease agreement for the next eight years, not sales.”

Lucresia Taberna Sumayo, an officer responsible for the Agrarian Reform Department (Dar) in the Island Negros region, said that the dispute between farmers and Chang would have to be resolved in court.

However, Sumayo said that although the gift was not directly involved, the Department maintains that the ARBS of Grunt Orienbets Award (Cloa) certificates remain important and the property is granted to families on the basis of families Comprehensive agricultural reform program (Carp) cannot be sold.

Tensions broke out again on January 15, when the guards allegedly harassed a teenage girl and 82-year-old Margarita Murillo. They were both allegedly weakened and hogited, the incident reported to the local police.

The incident of January 31 alerted Talisay officials who acted after a video from an armed guard, became popular.

The mayor of Lizares condemned the incident as disturbing and unacceptable, and ordered the investigation.

“I have always been clear that I would not tolerate any violence against any Talisayynon,” said Lizares.

On February 3, complaints regarding a serious threat, illegal release from firearms and violation of the elections of the ban on weapons were submitted against Alonsaga before the local prosecutor’s office. – – Rappler.com