ILAGAN CITY: To address land tenure issues and promote social and economic development, 124 land titles were awarded to beneficiaries from 15 municipalities and one city in Isabela province.
NEW LANDOWNERS. Some of the farmers in Isabela province who benefited from the "Handog Titulo" program of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The beneficiaries received the titles of the land that they have been tilling for decades at Piazza Zicarelli in Gamu town on Tuesday (June 14, 2022). (Photo by Villamor Visaya Jr.) GAMU, Isabela - At least 639 farmers in Isabela have received the titles enabling them to call the land that they have been tilling for decades as their own. During the "Handog Titulo" ceremony at a private hotel here on Tuesday, Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer Orly Cariazo said the new landowners received their titles under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-implemented Land Administrative Management Program. He lauded the Registry of Deeds and local government units (LGUs) for their support and assistance "that made the program possible." One of the land title recipients, For
Published December 29, 2020, 3:33 PM
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) was able to issue over 86,000 agricultural and residential free patents across the country.
From 2019 to October 2020, the DENR reported that its regional offices had issued a total of 30,456 agricultural free patents covering around 20,144.98 hectares across 14 regions in the country, topping its original target by 4.25 percent.
According to DENR-Land Management Bureau (LMB) Director Emelyne Talabis, the increase can be attributed to the December 31, 2020 deadline on the filing of applications pursuant to Republic Act 9176, as well as the increased use of the Land Administration Management System Philippines (LAMS), which fast tracked the approval of land surveys.