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DAR, private firm tap digital marketing to boost farmers’ production, income
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has partnered with AgriNurture Inc. (ANI) to use digital marketing and enhance the management capabilities of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARB). A private company engaged in the importation and trading of high-value crops, ANI will serve as the…
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DAR nagkaloob ng utility vehicle sa grupo ng magsasaka sa SoCot
PARA makatulong sa paghahatid sa produkto ng magsasaka nagkaloob kamakailan ang Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) provincial office ng South Cotabato ng utility vehicle na nagkakahalaga ng P300,000.00 sa Banga Agrarian Reform Community Cooperative (BARCCO). Nabatid sa DAR ang utility vehicle…

Cagayan landless farmers given 560 hectares of land
AGRARIAN reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Cagayan province have received a total of 560 hectares of farmland from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) that is expected to bring more economic opportunities to them as landowners, no longer as tenants. The department had constructed bridges worth…

DAR awards 560 hectares of agri lands to ARBs in three Cagayan Valley towns
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) recently distributed 560 hectares of agricultural land to farmers in three towns and turned over a P33.3 million worth of bridge project in Allacapan town in the Cagayan Valley region during a simple ceremony on Wednesday, May 11. In a news statement, DAR…

Farmers to run food processing center in Northern Samar
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has recently turned over a food processing center for women farmers in Lope de Vega, Northern Samar. The project is expected to benefit the members of the Samahan ng Kababaihan sa Barangay (SAMAKABA) who are into food processing. Aside from turmeric, the…

P75-M new DAR-Bicol building to boost services to stakeholders
LEGAZPI CITY – A PHP75-million building will soon rise in the regional government center here and is expected to help ease the workflow of transactions and give convenience to the clients of the Department of Agrarian Reform in Bicol (DAR-5), particularly the farmers. The three-storey…

SPLIT project eyes real property tax payment increase
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Bernie Cruz said that the Philippines — through the Land Bank of the Philippines — can collect 44-billion land amortization payments from the agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARB) with the local government units (LGU) to expect increase in…

DAR Ilocos has zero backlog in agrarian cases
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) regional office said it has zero backlog in the agrarian law implementation cases and even with the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB) as of January this year. DAR Ilocos regional office director…

Veggies provide CamSur farmers reliable source of income
LEGAZPI CITY – A farmers' group in Libmanan, Camarines Sur is increasingly taking up vegetable farming and is now reaping handsome profits from the venture. Gerard Buensalida, spokesperson of the Department of Agrarian Reform in Bicol (DAR-5), said in an interview on Tuesday the modest…

Duterte hopes next administration to continue land reform in Red areas
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte hopes his successor will continue the land reform program his administration started as one way of addressing the country's decades-long problem with poverty and insurgency. Under his watch, government-owned lands suitable for agriculture were divided and distributed to…

DAR updates 'CARPable balance' in Bicol Region
LEGAZPI CITY – The Department of Agrarian Reform in Bicol (DAR-5) has conducted a validation and cleansing of its database on land acquisition and distribution to evaluate and identify deductible and unworkable landholdings. Gerard Buensalida, DAR Bicol spokesperson, in an interview on…

DAR taps 2 ARB groups in NegOcc in drive vs. malnutrition
BACOLOD City – The Department of Agrarian Reform-Western Visayas (DAR-6) has tapped the services of two agrarian reform beneficiaries organizations (ARBOs) in Negros Occidental in supplying food requirements to target children-beneficiaries under the Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and…

Guimaras farmers benefit from DAR’s sustainable livelihood project
ILOILO CITY — The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Guimaras province has provided sustainable livelihood projects through the Climate Resilient Farm Productivity Support to farmers in Barangay Calaya, Nueva Valencia town, Guimaras. A total of 30 piglets and 35 sacks of feed were…

P3.7-M irrigation project to benefit CamNorte farmers
LEGAZPI CITY – The Department of Agrarian Reform in Bicol (DAR-5) will turn over a PHP3.7-million communal irrigation system (CIS) that is seen to boost rice productivity to a farmer-irrigators' association in Camarines Norte anytime this month. Camarines Norte Agrarian Reform chief Camilo…

Rebels’ 'second shot' in life
INSURGENCY is one of the pressing problems in Negros Island for decades. In fact, many people have already shed their lives, including civilians brought by this long and tiring armed struggle. Through the years, though, some of those rebels left their armed struggle and went back to the…