60 Samar farmers receive certificates of land ownership

TARANGNAN, Samar, Jan. 29 (PNA) -– Sixty farmers in this town became landowners as they received land titles from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Friday.

DAR Eastern Visayas Regional Director Sheila Enciso handed the 62 certificates of landownership award (CLOAs) covering a combined total area of 119.3 hectares to the 60 recipient farmers at the town hall.

After receiving their titles, Enciso encouraged the agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) to be members also of ARB organizations (ARBOs) in their respective areas to avail of the various support services extended by the DAR to its beneficiaries.

Support services such as farm machineries, credit facilities, livelihood trainings and many others, are coursed through the ARBOs, Enciso explained.

Samar provincial agrarian reform adjudicator Nellie Canillas further explained to the new landowners the obligations attached to being an ARB emphasizing the prohibition of selling their newly acquired land under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) within a period of 10 years.

The lands, according to municipal agrarian reform program officer Linda Agbon, were situated in the villages of Pajo, Bangon Gote, Cambatutay Viejo, Bahay, Dapdap, Palencia, Bonga, Cambatutay Nuevo and Majacob.

For this year, Samar provincial agrarian reform program officer Leovigildo Monge disclosed that his office is tasked to distribute 623 hectares of agricultural lands throughout the province.

Meanwhile, Mayor Danilo Tan told the ARBs of the value of the land.

According to him, there is much money in farming, thus his family shifted livelihood from fishing to farming. (PNA)
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