The Good News

No Missing 900 Hectares DAR: Only Roads, Common Areas Excluded From Distribution In Hacienda Luisita Thursday, 20 June 2013 10:20 All farm lots covered by the Supreme Court’s directive on the Hacienda Luisita case will be distributed to qualified beneficiaries. Read the Full Story

DAR: Negros Farmers Ok’d For P131-M Loan Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:07 Agrarian reform beneficiaries belonging to 34 farmers’ organizations in Negros Occidental have secured more than P131 million in production loan for the first five months of the year. The loan amount will cover the production requirements of 3,473 CARP beneficiaries and their household members. Read the Full Story

DAR: Deadlock On Luisita Audit Won’t Affect Land Distribution Sked Wednesday, 19 June 2013 09:59 The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) today maintained that the scheduled distribution of land to qualified farmworker-beneficiaries in Hacienda Luisita will push through in the middle of the year despite the deadlock on the special audit process in the sugar estate. Read the Full Story

DAR Execs Back Negros Installation Tuesday, 11 June 2013 15:41 Top officials of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) today vowed to extend “all legal assistance necessary” to its provincial officers and employees in Negros Occidental who had been threatened with court cases for successfully installing 79 agrarian reform beneficiaries in Hacienda Victoria in Barangay Camangcamang, Isabela town last June 7. Read the Full Story

Notices of Coverage

Notices of Coverage (NOCs) are issued for CARP-covered private agricultural lands under Compulsory Acquisition that still form part of the Land Acquisition and Distribution (LAD) CARPER Balance. Once the NOCs have been served/issued to landowners, DAR can initiate the land acquisition and distribution process.

Registered landowners as of June 15, 1988, as stated in the certified copy of Title or, in case of untitled private agricultural land, the owners stated in the Tax Declaration are notified that their landholdings are covered under the agrarian reform program through Personal Service, Substituted Service and Service by Publication in a newspaper of general circulation, (DAR Administrative Order No. 7, S. of 2011, as amended). Service of Notice of Coverage through registered mail was also adopted under DAR A.O. No. 2, S. of 2009. However, this mode of service has been removed and is no longer available under the present guidelines.

Successor/s or transferee/s of the agricultural land after June 15, 1988, or persons/entities to whom the landholding is registered at the time the NOC was issued are furnished a copy of the NOC.

Private agricultural lands under Voluntary Offer to Sell (VOS) and Operation Land Transfer/P.D. 27, including government owned lands and foreclosed lands of government financial institutions which are subject of coverage under CARP are not issued with NOCs.