News Articles from Region VIII
64 So. Leyte agrarian beneficiaries benefit ₱3.6M credit assistance
Ligtas stressed that AFFORD-ARBs and E-ARISE can be availed individually, while ALERT-ARBOs can be availed thru the ARBO they are affiliated with. LBP’s account officer, Noreen Joy Golong, also stressed during the meeting that the bank no longer ask for collateral in…
DAR sasadhan an Women’s Month Celebration pinaagi hin Agraryo Trade Fair
Ha pagsara han Women’s Month Celebration usa nga Agraryo Trade Fair an pagbubuhaton ha libong han Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Regional Office 8 nga nahimumutang ha Sto. Niño Extension hinin Syudad han Tacloban. Ini an pagdudumaraun ha sakob hin duha…
DAR turns over second processing center in Samar town
The chief of the Program Beneficiaries Development Division (PBDD), Thelma Alfaro, told the members “Kun kita magkakaurusa, waray makakapugong hit atun pag-uswag” (If we will unite, nothing can stop our progress.). Aside from DAR officials, present also during the…
Female-dominated farmer group thanks DAR official for helping them on International Women’s Day
BAFA lady-president, Vicenta Jaray, even hinted Rebato that the heirs of the previous owner who donated the lot where their organization’s building was constructed, are allegedly planning to take the property back from them. Rebato, who used to be a legal officer, is…
Abuyog farmers: We received more than what we expected from DAR
Chief of the Program Beneficiaries Development Division (PBDD), Melecia Ong, disclosed that COPS-IA, based in this town, is one of the two initial agrarian reform beneficiaries organization (ARBO) recipients in Eastern Visayas of package of support services, which include farm…
DENR, LBP, ROD renew support for CARP implementation in E. Visayas
Yu likewise disclosed that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. directed the DAR to fast track the implementation of the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project which made Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III committed to deliver 50 thousand…
DAR trains 150 DFs in E. Visayas on community organizing
Al Francis Caballero, a DF for almost three years assigned in Ormoc City in the province of Leyte, shared he feels more confident now in discharging his functions as a DF with the learnings he gained in the said training. According to him, “The knowledge I gained here…
Estrella pledges support to Samar’s agri development programs
Aside from various support services that could be extended by DAR, Estrella expressed that he will invite Bernie Cruz, former DAR Secretary, now the Administrator of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), who is expected to provide better assistance to their coconut-related endeavors,…
Bloodletting: A DAR-EV’s pre valentine event
A pre-valentine event dubbed as “Dugo ko, alay ko sa’yo!” was conducted in January this year by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Eastern Visayas to help save lives. Thirty bags of blood were collected through a blood-letting activity held at the DAR Regional Office,…
Rural development seen as DAR turns over 2 bridges in So. Leyte and E. Samar
Mayor Dana Flynch de Lira in her message also thanked President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for the blessings being poured into her town, a fourth-class municipality. This bridge will help us cross from the state of poverty towards a progressive Balangiga, she exclaimed. On Thursday and…
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.
