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DAR empowers Boholano farmers
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) recently turned over P3.6 million worth of farm equipment to three agrarian reform communities (ARCs) in the province of Bohol to encourage farmer-beneficiaries to work harder and produce more.DAR Undersecretary Felix Perry Villanueva said the equipment…
Distribution of Hacienda Luisita by middle of the year- DAR
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) reiterated today its intention to complete the process of distributing the land to the farmworkers of Hacienda Luisita by the middle of the year, after the subdivision scheme for the vast landholding was recently completed. This was confirmed by no less…
P40.5-M road project drives away the 'ghost' of its past
A ROAD leading to the Abala Agrarian Reform Community in Sapian, Capiz used to be rough and bumpy so that local residents couldn’t help but cracked a joke about the possibility of it triggering miscarriages among pregnant passengers. Thus, it earned the monicker: “The abortion…
DAR’s Cpwash delivers potable water to Benguet folks
GOING up and down the streams and springs to fetch some water is an ordeal the people in the mountains of Benguet used to face everyday until the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) provided a community-managed potable water supply, sanitation and hygiene (Cpwash), a low-cost technology that…
Convergence initiative inks partnership with DND
The National Convergence Initiative (NCI) has forged an agreement with the Department of National Defense (DND) to develop selected military reservations into nurseries and plantation sites in a bid to reduce poverty, ensure food security and mitigate climate change.Composed of the Departments…
Gov’t agencies pool resources for Luisita farmworkers
The more than 6,000 farmworkers who qualified as agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Hacienda Luisita will be awarded not only with parcels of land; they may also avail of agricultural support services from government agencies to boost their productivity.This was the assurance given by…
DAR to boost Batanes agricultural production
AGRARIAN REFORM beneficiaries (ARBs) in the province of Batanes have every reason to be happy as the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) plowed into various support services to improve their economic lives.Under the DAR’s Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services…
DAR: Luisita farmworkers free to choose their own crops
Farmworkers who qualified as agrarian reform beneficiaries in Hacienda Luisita will be in full control of the farm lots to be awarded to them and are free to choose the crops they want to plant, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) stressed today.“The land will be theirs to own. They…
SC asked to break deadlock in Hacienda Luisita
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), through the Office of the Solicitor General, filed Tuesday afternoon, May 28, a motion with the Supreme Court to clarify various issues arising from the special purpose audit ordered by the latter of the pertinent financial records of Hacienda Luisita,…
DAR hands over four Negros haciendas to 244 farmworkers
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) successfully completed the acquisition and distribution of four big sugar estates in Negros Occidental, installing 244 farmworkers in their newly-owned property covering a gross area of almost 500 hectares of land in the cities of Cadiz and Sagay. The…
DAR turns over P53.6-M projects to Quezon farmers
The Department of Agrarian Reform has turned over some P53.6 million worth of basic infrastructure projects to farmers of the MSS Agrarian Reform Community in Quezon. DAR Undersecretary for Support Services Jerry Pacturan said the projects include the 5.4-kilometer Cogorin-Mabanban…
DAR to SC: Gov't ready to distribute Hacienda Luisita to farmworkers
The government has wrapped up the most contentious stages in the acquisition of Hacienda Luisita under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), and is currently preparing for the sugar estate’s distribution to qualified beneficiaries, to be completed possibly between August and…
DAR to start allocation of Luisita farmlots
Beginning tomorrow (July 18), qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries of Hacienda Luisita will finally know the specific farm lots that they will own for good. The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) today announced that their personnel will commence on July 18 the allocation of farm lots to…
First batch of CARP beneficiaries in Hacienda Luisita receive lot allocation certificates
Farmworkers in Hacienda Luisita today inched closer to their life-long dream of owning the land they till as the first batch of agrarian reform beneficiaries in the vast sugar estate received their Lot Allocation Certificates indicating the location of their individual farm lots. The farm lots…
P4.4-B fund to boost Mindanao agricultural development
The government’s crusade in alleviating poverty in Mindanao has geared up as the Japanese government funded a P4.4-billion comprehensive package of support services project benefitting around 70,000 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in 216 barangays in Mindanao. The project dubbed as…
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.
