THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Negros Occidental has awarded 91 hectares of land to farmers it installed in Barangay Tiglawigan, Cadiz City recently.

DAR-Negros Occidental North, in a press release, said that it continues to implement the mandate of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (Carp) to help the nation through land tenure improvement, and provision of integrated development services to landless farmers, farm workers, small landowner and landowner-cultivators.

It also included the delivery of agrarian justice, which is the key to long lasting peace and development in the countryside.

DAR also assured the new land owners to help them in achieving equitable land ownership and empowered agrarian reform beneficiaries who are effectively managing their economic and social development for a better quality of life. (PR)