President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is set to distribute a total of 2,866.5 hectares of agricultural lands to 2,426 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs), turnover farm-to-market roads worth P100 million, and far machinery worth P17.5 million to farmers in the Central Visayas Region. The distribution of the land titles on May 20…
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LEGAZPI CITY - The Department of Agrarian Reform in Bicol (DAR-5) will soon distribute 60 motorcycles to its provincial offices to speed up the field validation operations for the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) Project. In an interview on Monday, Gerard Buensalida, DAR-5 spokesperson, said the 60 motorbikes that arrived last Friday are among the 820 units bought by the DAR central office for a total of PHP123 million. "Each unit costs PHP150,000 or PHP9 million for the 60 units. The SPLIT Project is a World Bank-funded project of the Department of Agrarian Reform. We are still waiting for the needed documents to be completed as required by the DAR Central office before we will distribute them to provincial offices but it will be as soon as possible," he said. He said in Bicol, field officers will need to work on 116,663 hectares and about 1.38 million hectares of collective land titles known as Collective Certificate of Land Ownership Awards
Farmers said Marcos Jr's decision to give priority to debt servicing and infrastructure during this period of worsening food crisis is telling of what’s in store for Filipinos in the next six years.
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