JUST over 20 percent of the country's agricultural population owned or had rights to their land as of three years ago, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said in a report released earlier this month.
The agency's latest Census of Agriculture and Fisheries found that 4.3 million people, or 21.8 percent of the country's total agricultural population of 19.68 million, had legally recognized documents of ownership or the right to sell or bequeath land.