The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said it will soon distribute over 400,000 hectares of agricultural lands to farmer-beneficiaries through the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project.
The Department of Agrarian Reform said it will soon distribute over 400,000 hectares of agricultural lands to farmer-beneficiaries through the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling project.Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III said they have so far subdivided 437,922 hectares of arable lands which will be distributed to the same number of qualified farmer-beneficiaries.
“The P24.62-billion project, funded by the World Bank and the government of the Philippines, aims to improve land tenure security and stabilize the property rights of some 1.14 million agrarian reform beneficiaries covering 1.36 million hectares of land nationwide,” the DAR said in a statement. Engineer Joey Sumatra, DAR Assistant Secretary for Field Operations and SPLIT project national director, said approximately 30 percent of the ARBs listed in CCLOAs are no longer in the area where the landholdings are located, due to abandonment, death, or their rights having already been sold to other individuals.
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