THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Eastern Visayas has aimed to parcelize 206,436 hectares of agricultural lands following cascading of the revised guidelines on Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (Split).
The Split project aims to fast-track land subdivision or parcelization of collective certificates of land ownership award (CCLOAS) and eventually issue individual land titles to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) who were previously awarded lands and collective Cloas under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.
“Various problems, particularly legal issues and concerns, arose during the initial implementation of Split project and now we are addressing them so that we know what to do when we encounter them these coming days,” said DAR Undersecretary for Field Operations Office Elmer Distor.
During the recently-held “Policy Orientation on the Revised Guidelines and Procedures on the Parcelization of Landholdings with Collective Cloas,” the official said that parcelization of landholdings covered by CCLOAs “is expected now to move fast and smooth.”
According to Rene Colocar, assistant secretary and Split national project director, the project “seeks to subdivide more than 1.3 million hectares of lands nationwide covered by more than 134,000 collective titles and eventually issue individual Cloas to about 1,140,735 ARBs until the year 2023.”
About 129,000 ARBs from the Eastern Visayas region awarded with CCLOAs with a combined area of 206,436 hectares are expected to benefit upon completing the project in 2023, the agrarian department said in a statement.
Meanwhile, DAR Eastern Visayas Regional Director Robert Anthony Yu said that for 2021, the region has a target of about 1,878 CCLOAs covering a combined area of 29,176 hectares for parcelization.
“Around 15,310 ARBs in Region-8 are expected to benefit this year by receiving their individual titles by yearend,” Yu said
The P24-billion Split project is funded by the World Bank, wherein 78 percent comprise the loan proceeds, while 22 percent serves as government counterpart. (SunStar Philippines)