AGRARIAN Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III hailed 2024 as a “banner year” for the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), highlighting the agency’s triple-digit growth in key land distribution programs.
Estrella unveiled DAR’s achievements in the first half of 2025, which he said would translate into stronger food security and improved agricultural productivity.
“In 2024, we surpassed the 100,000-mark in distributed land titles. And this 2025, I foresee that we will reach 200,000 titles to be distributed. I believe our trajectory will be around 300,000 to 400,000 titles, which our farmers have long been waiting for,” he said.
“Some waited for 15, 20, some have been waiting for 30 years and they are finally receiving these titles.” Estrella said.
During his fourth State of the Nation Address on Monday, President Marcos assured farmers of continuous land title distribution, as well as the condonation of unpaid loans and mortgages of the agrarian reform beneficiaries.
The President said he wanted to assure the farmers that the land they will soon own the land they till.
Estrella disclosed that since the beginning of the Marcos administration, the DAR has significantly increased its output.
He said during the first six months of the Marcos administration alone from July to December 2022, the DAR distributed over 26,000 land titles.
In 2023, the number doubled to more than 50,000, and by 2024, DAR had already surpassed 100,000 land title distributions, Estrella added.
