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As of December 31, 2022, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has already divided 437,922 hectares of agricultural land into individual lots as part of the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) program.

The Collective Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CCLOA), which were earlier handed to 146,860 qualified farmer-beneficiaries, have now been separated into individual titles, according to a DAR news release on Friday.

The SPLIT project seeks to fully implement the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program by providing farmer-beneficiaries with a defined and clear ownership of the land parcels they are cultivating, encouraging farmers to increase their output and make long-term improvements to their land, stabilizing the ownership, tenureship, and control of the lands awarded to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs), and creating opportunities for the project to make short-term income.

The 1.14 million ARBs will profit from the PHP24.62 billion World Bank-funded initiative, which spans 1.36 million hectares of land nationwide.

Secretary Conrado Estrella III remarked in a statement that field implementers had undergone the laborious procedure of subdividing these territories.

These comprise the CCLOA inventory and data collection, the ARB and landholding field validation, the segregation and subdivision surveys, and the distribution and installation of qualified ARBs, all of which will result in the development and registration of each CLOA.

In terms of the actual tillers and proprietors of the farmlands and the present extent of the landholdings, “the majority of the CCLOAs allocated throughout the 1990s have already seen a lot of changes,” Estrella noted.

Joey Sumatra, national director of the SPLIT project and DAR Assistant Secretary for Field Operations, estimated that 30 percent of the ARBs listed in the CCLOA are no longer present in the region where the landholdings are situated, either as a result of abandonment, decease, or the sale of their rights.

To identify the qualified beneficiaries, Sumatra added, “We must carry out field validation process through the disqualification and reallocation proceedings.”

Sumatra also mentioned the need to resolve a number of issues, including those involving the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program’s (CARP) overlap with the ancestral lands of indigenous communities, the process of creating electronic titles, and land surveys to determine the percentages of landholdings already designated for non-agricultural uses.

Before calculating the metes and bounds of each subdivided farm lot, he added the necessity to separate portions of landholdings assigned for non-agricultural uses, such as road networks and fundamental social infrastructure.

Concerned local governments, the National Commission for Indigenous Peoples, the Land Registration Authority, ARBs, and indigenous communities had discussions and debates.

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