The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is set to validate 580 hectares of land in North Cotabato for distribution to 218 farmer-beneficiaries under the agency’s Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project.
Provincial DAR officer Evangeline Bueno said she would send a validation team to the estate in Malapatan, Carmen earlier placed under a collective certificate of land ownership (CCLOA) so that they could identify the qualified beneficiaries prior to the issuance of individual land titles.
“These agrarian reform beneficiaries are expected to benefit from the project, giving them an absolute ownership of the lands they are tilling after the Project SPLIT activities are completed and finally award them their individual land titles,” she said.
The project involves the parcelization of lands and issuance of individual land titles to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program beneficiaries who were previously awarded lands through CCLOAs under a cooperative or association.
In a meeting recently spearheaded by DAR, Project SPLIT was thoroughly discussed and explained among the beneficiaries and stakeholders to clarify doubts and concerns about the project.
