Senate debate on farms and subdivisions highlights lack of land use policy

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In this file photo, agrarian reform beneficiaries work on a farm in Leyte in 2016.

Philstar.com, file

 

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Raffy Tulfo was in action on the Senate floor early Thursday morning as he debated land use policies with Sen. Cynthia Villar, whose family includes real estate development in its portfolio of businesses.

 

Senators had been deliberating on the proposed budget for the Department of Agriculture when Tulfo asked what the department was doing to protect farmlands from being sold to developers who convert them into commercial and residential land.

 

"That's our business," Villar said in response and in explanation.

 

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