Malacañang on Sunday disclosed that more than 138,000 farmers have received their certificates of land title titles under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) made the disclosure in a social media post on the eve of the President’s third State of the Nation Address (SONA).
The PCO said a total of 138,056 agrarian reform beneficiaries across the country now own the lands they till, having received their land titles from July 22 to July 10, 2024.
According to the PCO, the land grants were in keeping with a promise of the Chief Executive made during his second SONA where he said he would continue to implement the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program provided by law.
The PCO also noted that Marcos has kept his promise during the first SONA in 2022 that he would enact a law that will “emancipate the agrarian reform beneficiaries from debt burden” incurred under the land acquisition process.
Marcos signed into law Republic Act No. 11953 or the New Agrarian Emancipation Act on July 7, 2023 with a pledge to push the agrarian reform program to full completion during his term.
The program was set off in 1972 when Marcos’ father and namesake, the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr., issued Presidential Decree 2 that launched the land reform program in the country.
The President will deliver his third SONA today at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City before a joint session of Congress.
