MANILA - Preparations are underway for the 2022 1st Semester National Formative Assessment and Planning Conference to gauge how far the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has fared over the past semester to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of its mandated tasks. Lawyer Luis Meinrado Pangulayan, DAR Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and Research, said a meeting between and among the central office and its counterparts from the regional offices had been scheduled on Tuesday for presentation and consolidation of the latter's performance last semester. He said the discussion would zero in on issues and challenges that cropped up in the first semester to map up plans for confronting and resolving them to ensure the unimpeded implementation of the DAR's land acquisition and distribution, provision of support services and delivery of agrarian justice. Pangulayan advised the regional planning officers to submit in advance vital documents relative to their performance repo
February 23, 2021 UNDERSCORING its accomplishments especially amid the challenges brought about by the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Negros Occidental has delivered huge especially in land acquisition and distribution in the last five years.
The agency reported that it managed to distribute 1, 131.6588 hectares of agricultural lands to 1,367 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in the southern part of the province last year.
These have brought to 6,005.2756 hectares of agricultural lands distributed by DAR-Negros Occidental II to 8, 242 beneficiaries since 2016.
Also, it was able to register 643.34533 hectares of agricultural lands in 2020, making the total registered lands to 8,706.8382 hectares within the last five years.