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| Farmer-beneficiaries and their families of the disputed 61-hectare former property of the Teves family in Barangay Caranoche, Sta. Catalina and Barangay Villareal, Bayawan City, Negors Oriental started cultivate a vacant portion of the lot. Villareal-Caranoche Farmers' Association (VillaCARFA) president Rolando Floressaid the entry of the FBs was an act of self-installation in view of repeated failure by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to install them in the property which he said they already owned since ten years ago by virtue of their certificates of landownership award (CLOAs) issued in 1997 and 1999. AKP Images / Buck Pago |