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In the first 100 days of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) surpassed most of its goals.

Under Secretary Conrado Estrella III’s direction, DAR could assist 171,122 ARBs, or 123.33 percent of its aim, with training, support for their means of subsistence, and marketing.

Additionally, 1,070 agrarian reform beneficiary organizations (ARBOs) got training, while 55,626 agrarian reform beneficiary organizations (ARBs)—or 117.64 percent of its goal—were given access to credit and microfinancing.

In addition, the DAR Adjudication Board (DARAB) cases at the provincial, regional, and national levels, except for the Agrarian Law Implementation (ALI) cases at regional levels and the Office of the Secretary, were resolved in 65 percent of cases, according to the DAR’s accomplishment report.

DAR carried out foreign-assisted and unique projects under the ARB Development and Sustainability Program, including 147 bridges with a total length of 7,423,201 meters under the “Tulay ng Pangulo para sa Kaunlaran” Project (TPKP).

In the pre-construction stage are 27 bridges with a total length of 804 meters and 14 with a total length of 458.4 meters.

The PHP18.5 billion TPKP, a joint project between the governments of the Philippines and France, has been a source of pride for the entire Filipino nation as it offers excellent chances to improve their socioeconomic well-being.

According to Estrella, its three main goals are to “advance agrarian reform and rural development, increase production and income, and alleviate poverty among different farming communities.” “Our goal is to connect even the most isolated settlements to the town and market proper, giving them a sense of belonging and a significant part in nation-building.”

As of September, the projects Convergence on Value Chain Enhancement and Rural Growth and Empowerment, launched under the Duterte administration, had already constructed 42.792 kilometers of farm-to-market roads, 94 hectares of communal irrigation systems, and 20 linear meters of bridges.

Estrella claimed that President Marcos’ initial State of the Nation Address (SONA) on the “unequivocal resolve to continue agrarian reform projects” laid the foundation for DAR’s agrarian reform policy.

Solved

As of September 30, the DAR judicial system had successfully settled 5,713 DARAB cases out of a total of 8,082 cases across the country, or 70% of them.

2,634 out of 4,517 ALI cases were successfully resolved, representing a 58 percent success rate.

While ALI cases are legal conflicts governed by Republic Act 6657, often known as the Comprehensive Agricultural Reform Law, as modified, and other agrarian laws, DARAB handles disputes between landlords and tenants and administratively determines the reasonable compensation of landowners.

According to Estrella, DAR may not be able to eliminate its backlog of cases, but it is dedicated to solving a greater proportion of them.

“Our strategy is to use scrap and build method. To create positions with higher compensation for attorneys, we will eliminate vacant posts, he declared.

security of land tenure

8,106 electronic titles of individual certificates covering 11,097 hectares have been granted as part of the parcelization of the collective Certificate of Land Ownership Awards (CLOA) supported by the World Bank.

Estrella stated that they are stepping up their efforts to quicken the subdivision of communal CLOAs and are aiming to field validate at least 157,000 hectares of agricultural land this year.

Farmers who would benefit from the Support to Parcelization of Land for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project would be given more authority and be able to drive their objectives as landowners if the subdivision of the collective CLOAs into individual titles was accelerated.

In the meantime, DAR finished acquiring and distributing 3,070 hectares of idle government land for 2,853 ARBs and 1,404 hectares of land for 1,006 ARBs.

Executive Order No. 75, signed in February 2019, instructs all government departments, bureaus, agencies, and instrumentalities to find state-owned properties that are used for agriculture or that are appropriate for it so that they can be distributed to eligible beneficiaries.

Landless veterans, college graduates with agricultural degrees, and retirees from the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines are examples of qualified beneficiaries.

Executive Order No. 4, which gives a one-year moratorium on the loans of farmers who received lands under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, as indicated during the SONA in July, is another significant initiative that DAR is undertaking.

DAR and the Land Bank of the Philippines jointly signed Administrative Order No. 6 on September 28 to impose the moratorium.

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