The request was initiated by DAR Secretary John Castriciones, upon seeing the need to ensure the delivery of food and other agricultural commodities to markets, especially those located in critical areas where people cannot buy food because of the ECQ.

Department of Agrarian Reform

The Department of Agrarian Reform is the lead government agency that holds and implements comprehensive and genuine agrarian reform which actualizes equitable land distribution, ownership, agricultural productivity, and tenurial security for, of and with the tillers of the land towards the improvement of their quality of life.