A farmer takes advantage of the good weather to dry palay (unhusked rice) in Aguilar, Pangasinan, in this photo taken in August 2022. (File photo by WILLIE LOMIBAO / Inquirer Northern Luzon)
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. on Wednesday said he would want the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to double its distribution of land titles in 2024.
During a distribution ceremony of over 2,500 land titles to land reform beneficiaries in Davao City, Marcos lauded the DAR for distributing 90,000 land titles in 2023.
“It proves DAR’s hard work that over 90,000 titles were distributed in 2023,” Marcos said in Filipino.
“I am hoping this will increase or double in 2024.”
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The president said that the land titles distributed in Davao that day were a good start.
Marcos lamented the poverty that many farmers face. He said that the land titles were the right step in addressing poverty, but it could not end there.
The President said that the Agrarian Reform Act should be fully realized, and aid should be extended to the farmers through free farming equipment, added farming infrastructure, and more.