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The farmers inside the Central Mindanao University (CMU) cannot claim the land within the term of President Rodrigo Duterte while the proposed Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill (Garb) is still pending at the Lower House.

Ireneo Udarbe, regional chairperson of the peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, said this in a phone interview.

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The group supports Garb or House Bill 252 as the better alternative to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (Carp), which expired in 2014.

The farmers, collectively known as the Buffalo-Tamaraw-Limus (BTL), have been occupying a portion of property owned by the stateun CMU in Barangay Dologon, Maramag town in Bukidnon for more than 30 years.

“On the legal aspect, there is no assurance that the land the BTL members are asking will be given to them considering that Garb is not the priority of the House. They will just have to stand firm on their belief that the land they are tilling can finally be theirs in the future,” Udarbe said.

BTL members have been tilling parts of the 517 hectares inside the CMU campus with a total land area of 3,080 hectares.

BTL insisted on staying in the property despite the Supreme Court decision in favor with the CMU.  (davaotoday.com)

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