CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—A deal to grow pineapples for a multinational company in Bukidnon has opened a pandora’s box of accusations from one group of farmers against another and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
Leonardo Montemayor, national chair of the Federation of Free Farmers (FFF), in a statement accused environment officials in the province of brokering a deal to allow the multinational Del Monte to lease farmers’ land covered by community-based forestry management agreements (CBFMA) issued by the DENR for lands classified as forests.
In his statement, Montemayor, also former agriculture secretary accused DENR officials in Bukidnon—Ver…
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