CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: About 100 leaders of various farmer groups in Northern Mindanao on Monday started their 1,497-kilometer “walk” to Quezon City to press the government to distribute to them a state university-owned 517-hectare land in Bukidnon.

Dubbed as “Baktas (March) BTL: For Land and Life,” the farmers expect to arrive in Quezon City on Wednesday after passing by various provinces in a two-bus convoy for some awareness-raising actions before proceeding to Manila.

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