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164 farmer-beneficiaries in La Union receive land titles from DAR
Philippine Information Agency
09 May 2021, 00:38 GMT+10
SAN FERNANDO CITY, May 8 (PIA) A total of 164 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from four local government units in La Union now officially own the land they are tilling after receiving their Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)-La Union.
On May 6, 164 farmer-beneficiaries from Naguilian, Bagulin, San Gabriel, and this city were awarded with their CLOAs in a simple ceremony held at the Naguilian Central School in Naguilian town.
Some 105 CLOAs, both collective and individual, were distributed with land area covering 136.9591 hectares.
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“They were already poor, if not the poorest among the poor, even before the pandemic had afflicted the country,” Padilla said during the distribution of Certificates of Land Ownership Award and the awarding of the P9.3-million package of support services at Hotel Consuelo, Santa Rosa, Nueva Ecija.
The package included P1.81-million in financial assistance to two farmers’ organizations, two light tractors worth P1.99 million, and 75 hauling motorbikes worth P5.51 million.
“Before the pandemic, poverty incidence in the farming sector was pegged at 34.4 percent, the highest in our society,” Padilla said.
“After the pandemic or because of the pandemic, I wonder how much the poverty incidence in the farming sector will be?” she asked. She noted that the 13 million farmers around the country could comprise 70 percent of the “poorest of the poor” in the rural areas.
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File photo February 24, 2021 A TOP government official declared the Filipino farmers as the “new heroes” as the country is facing a crisis due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
John Castriciones, secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), said it is high time that farmers get all the help that they need since they take the cudgel for the nation’s requirements at this time of the pandemic by “providing food on our table.”
As he admired the farming sector for playing a major role, he said the farmers are the ones who are “keeping the country’s economy rolling.”
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