The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Cebu Province Division awarded certificate of land ownership awards (CLOAs) to the 136 farmers in Pinamungahan town in southwest Cebu.
The CLOAs represent the 152.7 hectares of land of Felix Barba in barangay Anopog covered under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program or CARP.
Spearheading the distribution of land titles at barangay Anopog Stage Hall last June 21 was Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer (PARO) I Paulino Tudlasan Jr., assisted by Pinamungajan Vice Mayor Maria Honeylette Yapha Lingad, municipal councilors, Anopog barangay Captain Wenceslao Gentapa, Chief Agrarian Reform Program officer for Administration Dr. Andrea Paciana Labra and Municipal Agrarian Reform officer Jaynes James Abarrientos.
Tudlasan advised the new landowners to make their lands productive and pay their amortization to Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) and the realty tax.
He also encouraged them to strengthen their people’s organization, increase agricultural production since barangay Anopog is already an agrarian reform community.