Several farmer leaders and agrarian reform beneficiary representatives from Negros Oriental sought an audience with Agrarain Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman and DAR Field Operations Undersecretary Renato Herera at the Department of Agrarian Reform national office yesterday.

Angel Tormon of the Negros Farmers Council and coordinator of the Negros Farmlands, said they did this because the DAR provincial and regional offices failed to adequately resolve issues during a “Kampo ng Bayan” camp-in in Negros Oriental, January 21.

Tormon said those who went to the DAR office were accompanied by former Department of Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor, the current president of the Federation of Free Farmers.

Tormon said that they are hoping for Pangandaman's decisive action on key land claims.

The NFC leaders will also seek an audience with Bishop Ledesma, chairman of the Organizing Committee of Catholic Bishop's Conference of the Philippines ' National Rural Congress, Tormon said.

The farmers also plan to go to the House of Representatives to air their problems on CARP and they are expecting to talk with members of the House Oversight Committee on Agrarian Reform and Social Justice on behalf of their members and affiliates, Tormon added.*RG

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