Farmers from Batangas, Negros Occidental, Davao and Bukidnon are calling on President Benigno Aquino and Agrarian Reform Sec. Gil delos Reyes as they set camp in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform, a press release from Task Force Mapalad said.

The  farmers seek to force the government to act as an efficient implementing body of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms, the press release said.

It also said Delos Reyes accomplished only a dismal 41 percent or 86,209 hectares out of the targeted 210, 323 hectares of land for acquisition and distribution in 2011, while Aquino has kept mum on issues such as CARPER.

Aquino claims he is implementing agrarian reform but in reality it is all talk, TFM president Alberto Jayme said. Bishop Broderick Pabillo of the Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines-National Secretariat for Social Action, an agrarian reform advocate, officiated a mass in the farmers’ camp to spiritually guide the farmers in their protest, the press release said.*

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