[SPLIT News Alert] DAR distributes 525 computerized titles (c-titles) in Bicol Region
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Bicol region distributed, on Monday, May 2, 2022, its first computerized individual land titles (c-titles) to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) who were previously awarded with lands under collective certificates of land ownership award (CCLOAs).
DAR Secretary Bernie F. Cruz led the distribution of 525 c-titles, covering 965.2426 hectares of agricultural lands, to 522 ARBs to strengthen their land tenure security and property rights to their lands.
“This is the legal proof and the security of your individual land rights. We expect that this will encourage you to invest in your property and adopt better technologies for greater productivity and higher incomes,” Cruz said
DAR Bicol Regional Director Rodrigo Realubit said this is the first set of c-titles distributed in the region.
“We have gone through the tedious process of validating the lands and resolving various land issues and disputes among the farmers. We ensure a fair and just issuance of new, individual, and computerized land titles to these ARBs,” he said.
The distributed lands are from the provinces of Albay with 66.16 hectares; Camarines Norte, 243.89 has.; Camarines Sur A, 129.59 has.; Camarines Sur B, 113.88 has.; Masbate, 220.31 has.; and Sorsogon, 191.38 has.
"We have been waiting for a long time for this day to happen, to have a clear and defined ownership of the parcels of land we are tilling,” said Rogelio Sabas, 66 years old, an ARB from Bariis, Legazpi City.
The c-titles were distributed through the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) Project, a process of individually subdividing and determining the exact metes and bounds of the areas covered under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), involving awarded lots to ARBs under CCLOA.
Sorsogon province was the 1st to generate c-titles, the 1st ARBs who were able to pay tax, and the 1st-full group of ARBs who were able to pay full land amortization to the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP).