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Strong on its heels of furthering quality standards and services, DAR Caraga officials and employees of the regional office are yet again trained and equipped with the necessary knowledge geared towards an eventual International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) certification.
A total of 2,047 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) received 2,076 land titles covering a total area of 3,957 hectares during the distribution ceremony held at the Capitol Convention Center in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.
PUERTO PRINCESA, Palawan — More than 400 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in this province are expected to boost their farming operations as the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) provided their organizations with P6,742,000.00 worth of farm machines and tractors.Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III led the turnover of farm machines and tractors to uplift the lives of farmer members from the two (2) agrarian reform beneficiaries’ organizations in Palawan.The Bono-Bono Gintong Butil Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Bataraza agrarian reform community was provided with 1 unit harvester with trailer and 1 unit 4-wheel drive tractor with rotary tiller worth P 3,498,000.00. The Malalong-Binasbas Agriculture Cooperative received 1 unit hauling truck with a 6-wheeler drop side worth P 3,244,000.00.Estrella said the initiative is a testament to the DAR's commitment to making a positive impact in the lives of farmers and ensuring that the ARBs will have access to the resources for them to help contribute to the growth of the local economy.“With the farm machinery and equipment, these organizations can now provide services to their ARB members, adjoining ARB organizations, and other small farmers in the community,” Estrella said.
As the country celebrates the Eid al-Fitr or the Feast of Ramadan, twenty-two (22) Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) in Brgy. Balanti-an, Balasan, Iloilo are also rejoicing after they were officially installed and declared as owners of the awarded land by the Department of Agrarian Reform through a Writ of installation.
Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado M. Estrella III has appealed to all not to pit President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. and President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on matters involving agrarian reform, following issues on the Ati tribe members in Boracay.“I just want to make it clear that the past and the present Presidents have done a lot for the agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs),” he said.Estrella stressed that PRRD signed and issued Executive Order No. 75, series of 2019, to cover unused government-owned lands (GOLs), which directed all government agencies to turn over to the DAR all government-owned farmlands and place them under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) coverage for distribution to landless farmers. Estrella also said that during the PRRD administration, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) implemented the Support for Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (Project SPLIT) funded by the World Bank. Project SPLIT involves the subdivision of collective certificates of land ownership award (CCLOAs) into individual land titles.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. with Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Conrado M. Estrella III turned over a total of P69.17 million worth of support services to 19 agrarian reform beneficiaries’ organizations (ARBOs) in Negros Occidental.“You can count on me and the entire government to support you in all your endeavors. Join me in realizing a New Philippines – a country where no one goes hungry and everyone works for the good of all,” Marcos said.Perla Miraflor, an ARB and chairperson of Victor U. Lopez Agrarian Reform Cooperative (VULARCO), in Negros Occidental 2 (South), embraced PBBM to express her gratitude for the support services provided to them, as these she said, will boost the income of ARBs and ARBOs itself.“The challenge now is in our hands to make the land productive so that we could increase our income,” Miraflor said.Atty. Sheila B. Enciso, DAR Western Visayas Regional Director said a total of 750 farmers in Negros Occidental would benefit from the farm-to-market roads (FMRs), Tulay ng Pangulo Para sa Kaunlarang Pang-Agraryo (TPKP project), organic fertilizer, and farm machineries and equipment (FMEs) distributed by the President.
“We must uphold the law relative to the issue of Ati in Boracay,” Agrarian Secretary Conrado M. Estrella III said during a press conference held after the distribution of Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOAs) in Negros Occidental.He emphasized that there is no basis for awarding the CLOAs to the members of the Boracay Ati Tribal Association.“First, the Bureau of Soils and Water Management under the Department of Agriculture declared the landholding not suitable for agriculture which should be exempted from DAR coverage under Republic Act 6657, or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program,” Estrella said.The second reason, Estrella said, is that the period of issuing the notice of coverage of private lands had already expired last June 30, 2014, when the DAR issued the CLOAs to the ATI in 2018.“Third, they cannot invoke Executive Order 75 here because it is not even a government-owned land since there is a legitimate claimant.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado M. Estrella III distributed 4,724 Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOAs) covering 2,550 hectares to 2,797 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) at the Manuel Y. Torres Memorial Coliseum and Cultural Center in Bago City, Negros Occidental.