THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Monday distributed a total of 4,724 certificates of land ownership award in a 2,550-hectare land in Negros Occidental to 2,797 farmer-beneficiaries.
DAR Secretary Conrado Estrella III said the distribution of the land titles was under the government’s Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling or Project SPLIT program.
He vowed to support President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s call to expedite the distribution of land ownership titles to farmer-beneficiaries of agrarian reform and provide support to help the beneficiaries improve their living conditions.
“To ensure the agrarian reform beneficiaries’ success, over 59 million worth of support services will be distributed to 19 organizations in Negros Occidental, including farm-to-market road projects, Tulay ng Pangulo Para sa KaunlarangPang-Agraryo and farm pieces of machinery and equipment,” he said.
New lands are the regular targets of the DAR under the Land Tenure Improvement (LTI) covering private agricultural lands, while the landholdings under the Project SPLIT are those covered and previously issued by the DAR with collective certificates of land ownership award and are now being subdivided and replaced with individual CLOAs or land titles to improve land tenure security and strengthen property rights of the ARBs.
