MANILA - Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Bernie F. Cruz said there is no need to amend the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL). "The agrarian reform program is not about consolidating lands. The program awards individual land titles to beneficiaries to give them the freedom of managing it themselves and to create more opportunities for them," Cruz said in a news release on Tuesday. Cruz made this reaction after of George Barcelon, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), pushed for specific amendments in the CARL that include easing the rules in land consolidation and ownership to create opportunities for better agricultural productivity by farming larger tracts of land. Cruz said the agrarian reform program under Presidential Decree No. 27 and the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) issues individual land titles to landless farmers and farmworkers. "If we will consolidate lands, that would be going against the inte
Farmers’ groups have expressed skepticism about the feasibility of achieving the president-elect’s campaign promise of reducing the price of rice, but Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Bernie F. Cruz insists that it can be done via the agency’s project. Cruz has invited various farmers’ groups to join the DAR…
When then presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. promised to bring down the price of rice at P20 per kilo, a lot of agriculture experts frowned at it, arguing that it is impossible and even if it happens, it will eventually kill local farmers. And now that Marcos was elected, a lot
NEW BRIDGE. A newly completed PHP14.5-million bridge was officially opened to the public in Sta. Ignacia, Tarlac on Tuesday (March 22, 2022). The Calipayan-Cabugbugan Bridge is expected to help some 1,170 agrarian reform beneficiaries by hastening the transport of their produce to the markets. (Photo courtesy of DPWH-Central Luzon) CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga - A PHP14.5-million bridge which is seen to hasten the transport of agricultural products was officially opened to the public on Tuesday in Sta. Ignacia, Tarlac. Officials from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) led by Secretary Bernie F. Cruz led the inauguration of the Calipayan-Cabugbugan Bridge connecting the agricultural villages of San Sotero, Calipayan, Timmaguab, Cabugbugan, and Caanamongan in the town. The project was funded under the "Tulay ng Pangulo para sa Kaunlarang Pang-Agraryo" program and implemented by the DPWH Regional Office 3. The new str