The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has finished land acquisition and distribution to qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Zambales.
Funded by the World Bank, Project SPLIT or Support for Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling involves the subdivision of the Collective Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CCLOAs) into individual land titles.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer Emmanuel Aguinaldo said DAR Zambales finished the land acquisition and distribution last December 2023.
“Project SPLIT covers 8,400 hectares of land. About 5,600 ARBs will have their own land title by the end of this project,” he added.
Aguinaldo mentioned the benefits of having an individual title.
“There are many benefits when you have an individual title. It can be used for production by individual farmers. And they cannot do that if their CLOA is collective,” he furthered.
Based on the latest data from DAR, almost 300 individual titles have already been distributed to qualified ARBs.
Project SPLIT aims to fast-track the subdivision of CCLOAs to allow farmer-beneficiaries to have full ownership and possession of the land they are cultivating. (CLJD/RGP, PIA Region 3-Zambales)