To mark World Hunger Day, farmers and rural communities will hold a protest action tomorrow to denounce the Marcos Jr. administration’s failure to address rural poverty, hunger, and corruption in agriculture.

Farmers will echo the nationwide demand for agricultural disaster compensation for farmers and farm workers reeling from calamities, pest infestations, and the rice liberalization law, while lamenting billions lost to corruption that could have served as production subsidies and aid for farmers.

The protest will expose and oppose the 6,652 hectares oil palm plantation by company HAPI in Candoni, Negros Occidental, which displaces farmers and Indigenous people and destroys food-producing lands in favor of destructive agribusiness ventures.

This action marks the second day of the “Kampuhang Magbubukid para sa Lupa at Laban sa Korapsyon,” a protest camp led by Negros farmers who traveled to Manila to bring attention to unresolved agrarian cases in the country’s Hacienda capital and the worsening crisis faced by sugar workers—earning only a measly P82 to P333 per day, far below the regional minimum wage.

During the Tiempo Muerto, when sugar milling stops, entire communities in sugar haciendas are pushed into hunger, debt, and forced migration.

The Kampuhang Magbubukid will continue in the coming days and culminate in a mass protest at Liwasang Bonifacio on October 21, coinciding with the October Peasant mobilization and the broad protest against corruption. Farmers vow to sustain their protests until government agencies act on their demands for land, compensation, and justice, and until corrupt officials are held accountable for plundered public funds meant for food and livelihood.

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