DAR In the News
ARBOs’ crops, products may soon be ordered online, says DAR chief
MANILA, Philippines — The crops and products of agrarian reform beneficiaries’ organizations (ARBOs) may soon be accessed and accept orders through online, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) announced on Monday. Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III said DAR is seeking…
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DAR helps promote ARBO products via digitized marketing
MANILA – The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is upgrading its farmers' registry and database to help agrarian reform beneficiary organizations (ARBOs) market their products digitally. The particular land-based digitization marketing project will feature online each of the ARBOs finest…
Caviteño planters graduate from DAR farm biz school
A total of 37 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from Batas Dao Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Inc. General Emilio Aguinaldo Cavite have completed a crash course for farmer-businessmen being offered by the Department of Agrarian Reform’s (DAR) Farm Business School (FBS). The project is…
Soccsksargen farmer groups to be SEC-registered
MANILA – The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in the Soccsksargen region and the Securities and Exchange Commission-Davao Extension Office (SEC-DEO) tied up recently to make agrarian reform beneficiaries organizations (ARBOs) to be SEC-registered for them to receive more government…
Agrarian reform co-op in Agusan Sur sells rice at P30 to P35 a kilo
The prices of rice in most areas of the country have not gone down below the P40 level. Jamil Amatonding Jr., Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II of DAR Agusan del Sur, said the large-scale milling complex complete with solar and mechanical batch dryers and a multi-pass miller has been…
How 1972 martial law hastened PH's land reform program
Filipino men and women born a decade before the advent of the September 1972 martial law may be interested to know that such imposition of partial military rule became very beneficial to the country's landless farmers commonly called tenants. Here's why: The implementation of Republic Act 3844…
DAR, Landbank issue guidelines on moratorium for land payments of beneficiaries
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and state-owned Land Bank of the Philippines have issued a joint order providing the implementing guidelines for the moratorium on the payment of land amortization and interests for agrarian reform beneficiaries. In a joint news release on Thursday, DAR…
IRR suspending land payments signed
AGRARIAN Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella 3rd and Land Bank of the Philippines President and Chief Executive Officer Cecilia Borromeo on Wednesday formally signed the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) on the one-year moratorium on land amortization and interest payments of agrarian…
DAR chief Estrella secures post with CA nod
MANILA, Philippines – The appointment of Conrado Estrella III as chief of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) was confirmed by the Commission on Appointments (CA) on Tuesday. His confirmation came after the CA’s committee on agrarian reform deliberated on his qualifications and…
Northern Samar farmers group gets farm machinery, equipment from DAR
MANILA, Philippines — A group of farmers in Northern Samar received farm machinery and equipment from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). In a statement released Monday, the DAR said that it handed out the machinery and equipment to the Cervantes Integrated Organic Farmer Association…
ARBs in Bicol enroll in agri registry system, says DAR
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) announced on Sunday the registration of 3,438 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) using its electronic registry system or Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA) to boost its assistance to small farmers in the Bicol region. The DAR…
DAR gives away P1.3M worth of farm tools to Capiz farmers
Three organizations of agrarian reform beneficiaries in Capiz have received P1.3-million worth of farm implements and will also be given training in modern farming technology in a bid to help boost their agricultural production, thus improving their quality of life. Department of Agrarian Reform…
House concludes plenary debates on DAR's 2023 budget
MANILA – Aklan 2nd District Rep. Teodorico Haresco Jr., House Committee on Appropriations vice chairperson, on Friday sponsored and successfully defended the proposed 2023 budget of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) worth PHP15.85 billion during the period of debates in the plenary.…
Cebu farmers receive cargo truck from DAR
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Tuesday said it recently turned over to a group of farmers from Barangay Talavera in Toledo City, Cebu a multi-cab delivery truck. The Talavera United Farmers Association (TUFA) will use the vehicle to transport food supplies to the Bureau of Jail and…
Solar-powered irrigation facility seen to boost Cavite farmers’ productivity
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has recently turned over to a group of farmers in Tanza, Cavite, a P12-million solar-powered irrigation system (SPIS) to boost the farmers’ food production capability through irrigation using the power of the sun. In a news release, DAR Secretary…
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.
