Cagayan Valley, Bicol farmers finally get to own lands 

TUGUEGARAO CITY—The wait is finally over for some 11,000 farmers in Cagayan Valley and the Bicol regions who received land titles, condonation certificates, and farm support from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in separate distribution ceremonies this month, marking major gains in the government’s agrarian reform program. “This is what I have long been