Cebu farmers receive land titles

A total of 400 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Barangay Binongkalan, Catmon, Cebu received 326 certificates of land ownership award (CLOAs) covering 157.28 hectares of agricultural land from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to improve their economic lives.
The distribution of land titles is in consonance with the directive of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr, through the leadership of DAR Secretary Conrado Estrella III.
Maryln Pelonio, one of the land recipients and Secretary of Asosasyon sa mga Benepisyaryo sa Programang Agraryo sa Binongkalan, expressed her gratitude to the DAR for providing them with land titles.

“We now have the full right to call these properties ours. We promise DAR that we will take care of these lands and make them more productive,” she said.
Prior to the distribution of CLOAs, the DAR officials and personnel discussed the rights and obligations of the ARBs to their properties.
Grace B. Fua, Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II, who led the distribution of CLOAs attended by Catmon Mayor Aves Monleon, said the DAR is pooling all their efforts to fast-track the issuance of the CLOAs to the landless farmers.
“Apart from helping them in making their lands productive, the DAR also reminds them from time to time of their obligations such as paying their taxes to confirm ownership over the land,” she said.
Mayor Monleon thanked the DAR for helping the farmers in their town to own the lands they have been dreaming of for years.