ALANGALANG, Leyte — At least 1,031 farmers from the different towns in Leyte province received their certificates of land ownership award (Cloas) from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in a ceremony held in this town on Thursday.
Among the recipients was Andronico Babiano, 68, of Barangay San Vicente who said he had been waiting for the government to grant him a Cloa so he can claim that the lot he is tilling is under his name.
“I’ve been farming in a lot owned by somebody else for more than 50 years now and could not really enjoy all the palay that I harvest because a part of it goes to the owner of the lot,” he said.
Babiano said during harvest, he has to give two s…
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