This word appears in Luha ng Buwaya (Crocodile Tears), a famous novel penned by Amado V. Hernández.
batares
cooperative work
cooperative work
Batares is an agricultural practice whereby several persons help each other in building a house, farming, constructing dikes, or other such manual labor.
pagtutulungan
helping each other
nagpapabatares
Related Filipino concept: bayanihan