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DAR to release individual titles for 250 hectares to Negros ARBs

The validation of lands, implemented under the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project, to subdivide the lands that were previously issued to the Negros Occidental ARBs through collective certificate of land ownership award. *DAR photo

Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Conrado Estrella III announced on Friday, November 11, that individual land titles will soon be issued to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Negros Occidental covering 250.18 hectares of agricultural lands.

This follows the completion of the validation process in the area, which identified the beneficiaries and affirmed their occupancy and tilling of the land, Estrella said in his announcement posted on the DAR website

Estrella said that the validation process is implemented under the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project in compliance with the directive of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to improve the lives of the ARBs.

The validation of lands, implemented under the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project, was to subdivide the lands that were previously issued to the Negros Occidental ARBs through collective certificate of land ownership award (CCLOAS)..

The project aims to subdivide the lands previously given to the ARBs through collective certificates of land ownership award (CCLOAs) which would eventually be re-awarded through individual titles to the farmers.

The 250.18 hectares in Negros Occidental is covered by a CCLOA which disables the farmers from making the land productive.

Farmers cannot effectively utilize the land to earn income because they do not know the specific metes and bounds of the land given to each of them.

The SPLIT project aims to finally parcelize the lands covered by the CCLOAs so that farmers can make full use of the individually titled lands corresponding to their share of the parcelized land.

“Our Field Validation Team aims to fast-track the subdivision of awarded CCLOAs. In order to do this, we need to conduct the actual validation of relevant information necessary for the re-issuance of titles to the co-owners of the land,” Estrella said.

The areas validated include 181.27 hectares of land in Silay City, 38.59 has. in the town of Murcia, 15.84 has. in Cadiz City, and 14.48 has. in Escalante City.

Sheila Enciso, DAR Western Visayas Director, said the parcelization of lands would strengthen the ARBs’ land tenure security.

Enciso added that individual titling would encourage the ARBs to improve their lands more toward increased farm productivity and household incomes.

The SPLIT project is being implemented in 78 provinces and in 15 regions.*PR

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