A total of 6,262 agrarian reform beneficiaries from the provinces of Guimaras and Iloilo received Certificates of Condonation with Release of Mortgage (CoCRoMs), Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOA), and Electronic Land Titles (E-Titles) from the Department of Agrarian Reform over the weekend.
Pura Barquilla, an ARB from Iloilo expressed her gratitude for the opportunity given to farmers to become landowners.
“We are very thankful for this. We will take care of this land to help our family. We thank the government for giving us this opportunity,” Barquilla said in Filipino.
The distribution was led by DAR Undersecretary for Foreign-Assisted and Special Projects Office Jesry Palmares, with Assistant Secretary for Finance, Management and Administration Office Quintin Magsico Jr., OIC-Regional Director for Negros Island Region Lucrecia Taberna, and Region VI Director Leomides Villareal.
The 6,262 ARBs were broken down into CoCRoMs, CLOAs, and E-titles distribution.
Specifically, for CoCRoM, a total of P314,661,860.29 of agrarian debts were cleared through the distribution of 7,039 certificates to 5,201 ARBs.
The distribution of CoCRoM is based Republic Act No. 11953 or the New Agrarian Emancipation Act (NAEA) signed by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on July 7, 2023, that condoned all agrarian debts of ARBs, including amortizations, interests, penalties and surcharges.
DAR also distributed 479 CLOAs covering 473.97 hectares of land to 351 ARBs, and 1,100 E-Titles under the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) Project covering 879.98 hectares to 710 ARBs of the provinces of Guimaras and Iloilo.
