THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Negros Occidental-North installed 14 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Sagay City recently.
Municipal Agrarian Reform Program Officer Jessan Saquian, who led the activity, urged farmer-beneficiaries to take the opportunity to reap a good harvest of their products.
Saquian also told ARBs to maximize the potential of land awarded to them and make it productive.
A total of almost 11.7 hectares were distributed to the ARBs, which involve the landholdings previously managed by Ismael Jamora and located in Barangay Tadlong in the northern Negros Occidental city.
The farmer-beneficiaries will benefit from the land distributed by the DAR through land acquisition and distribution (LAD) process under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (Carper).
The agency is mandated to redistribute government and private agricultural lands to landless farmers and farm workers to secure the farmers' land security, social equity, and provide them with the necessary productive resources needed to ensure their economic viability and productivity.
It also covers all tenanted agricultural lands such as those in the retained areas, not yet acquired for distribution under Carp, and those which may be validly covered under existing laws.
The activity, meanwhile, has complied with minimum health protocols set by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Department of Health in the areas under the Modified General Community Quarantine.
Also present were members of the Sagay City Police Station and other DAR personnel, among others.