30 potential Carp beneficiaries in Himamaylan City take oath

HIMAMAYLAN. Thirty potential agrarian reform beneficiaries in Himamaylan City take their oath before Judge Leticia Trigue on Wednesday, May 26. (Contributed photo)
HIMAMAYLAN. Thirty potential agrarian reform beneficiaries in Himamaylan City take their oath before Judge Leticia Trigue on Wednesday, May 26. (Contributed photo)

THIRTY farmers in Himamaylan City took their oath before becoming agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (Carp) of the Department of Agrarian Reform on Wednesday, May 26.

Of the number, 22 are potential ARBs of the 5.97-hectare landholding formerly owned by Gregorio Saguinsin located in Barangay III Poblacion in the southern Negros Occidental locality.

Seven other potential ARBs are farmers of the 6.59-hectare agricultural land formerly owned by the Philippine National Bank situated in Barangay Carabalan.

The remaining potential beneficiary is the landholding of Pablo Lim Jr. in Barangay Mambagaton.

They took their oath before Municipal Trial Court Judge Leticia Trigue.

Municipal Agrarian Reform Program Officer Normando Criseno said the potential ARBs also signed the Application to Purchase and Farmer's Undertaking (Apfu) that underscores their rights and obligations as farmer-beneficiaries.

Criseno said during the oath-taking, the importance, need and significance of the Apfu were explained, especially the rights and obligations of the farmer-beneficiaries.

These include their willingness to work on the land to make it productive and their obligations under the law involving the payment of amortization and real property tax, he added.

For her part, Municipal Agrarian Reform Program Officer Unita Silva stressed that in order to facilitate the processing of the land acquisition and distribution of the landholding, it is important that qualified ARBs must attend the oath-taking and sign the undertaking.

"Failure to take oath and sign the Apfu within the prescribed period without valid reason shall be construed as lack of interest to become an ARB and shall be considered a waiver of such right under the Carp," Silva explained.

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