Aquino determined on land reforms
NZPA-Reuter Manila President Corazon Aquino says she is willing to have her family’s 6000 ha sugar estate broken up in compliance with Philippines land reform programmes. “Whatever laws will be enacted, I say that nobody is above the law and that includes me. My brothers and sisters are Filipino citizens ... We will abide by whatever laws are enacted as far as sugar land is concerned,” she said yesterday. Mrs Aquino announced plans to spend 24 billion pesos (about $l.B billion) raised from the sale of
State businesses on land reform. The businesses in-
clude textile and paper mills, cement factories and mines and smelters. A committee was now formulating guidelines for the plhn, including the question of whether land owned by multi-national companies should also be covered, she added. The Agrarian Reform Secretary, Heherson Alvarez, said recently that the Government planned to distribute 9.7 million hectares of land to impoverished farmworkers.
The plan was expected to benefit about three million landless peasants, he said.
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