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Central Luzon farmers charge at DAR amid worsening landgrabbing and conversions after March kampuhan dialogues. Facebook/Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas - KMP

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Farmers slam 'sham' land reform on day 6 of camp

Jervis Manahan

ABS-CBN News

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1760942703297552392763_852938420398021_672934924728893488_n.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Central Luzon farmers charge at DAR amid worsening landgrabbing and conversions after March kampuhan dialogues. <em>Facebook/Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas - KMP </em><u></u></span></span></span></div><p>QUEZON CITY — Farmers from various regions are now on the sixth day of their camp outside the Department of Agrarian Reform to signify their indignation against what they call were sham land reform initiatives.</p><p>Some peasant groups from Negros Oriental, Central Luzon, and Southern Tagalog joined forces to hold protest actions and dialogues, a day before their planned mobilization in Manila.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/business/2025/10/7/farmer-groups-say-p17-19-kg-floor-price-for-wet-palay-not-enough-1537">Farmer groups say P17-19/kg floor price for wet palay not enough</a></div><p>The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) criticized DAR&#x27;s claim of distributing 195,000 CLOAs from July 2022 to January 2025, noting that these are not new land reform areas.</p><p>&quot;On the sixth day of the farmer camp-out in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) national office, farmers from Hacienda Luisita and Hacienda Tinang in Tarlac, Masinloc in Zambales, and Anunas in Pampanga held a picket protest to denounce the worsening cases of land use conversion, landgrabbing, and state neglect across Central Luzon,&quot; KMP said on their post.</p><p>On October 21, the farmers are set to hold a nationwide people&#x27;s mobilization for genuine land reform and against corruption.</p><div><a class="fr-strong fr-green" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/10/19/-korapchella-groups-hold-solidarity-concert-calling-for-accountability-vs-corruption-2015">&#x27;Korapchella&#x27;: Groups hold solidarity concert calling for accountability vs corruption</a></div>

<p>Farmers from various regions are now on the sixth day of their camp outside the Department of Agrarian Reform to signify their indignation against what they call were sham land reform initiatives.</p>

Farmers from various regions are now on the sixth day of their camp outside the Department of Agrarian Reform to signify their indignation against what they call were sham land reform initiatives.