AFTER allocating the budget from the World Bank fund, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Misamis Occidental has launched a new program meant to hasten the subdivision of lands expropriated under the land reform law and the issuance of individual land titles.
The project called Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling or SPLIT has a budget estimated worth P25 million allocated for the province of Misamis Occidental.
It involves 7,520 hectares across the province into individual land titles to be distributed and parcelized until 2024, according to provincial agrarian reform project officer Rolando Libetario.
Libetario said the new program meant to subdivide collective certificates of land ownership award (CCLOAs) into individual land titles, so that every farmer-beneficiary may exercise full ownership and possession, and have a complete say in cultivating it the way he or she sees fit.
“This is to give an end to the co-ownership of the CCLOA, which farmer beneficiaries are still longing for several years ago for the individual title,” He said.
In a press conference, Libetario said the SPLIT project has three components, which include the parcelization of collective CLOAs; capability building and technical assistance; and project management, monitoring and evaluation.
“The collective CLOAs do not specifically identify the area or portions of land owned by a specific farmer,” Libetario explained.
He said this is the first time in the history of DAR that the operations division is managing a foreign assisted project for the landing improvement system.
“Hopefully you will join us during the validation, re-identification if ever the farmer-beneficiaries are not around,” said Libetario hoping that when they receive the title they will value these title.
“They will not sell the title and make the title a valuable asset to them and to their future family,” Libetario said to the farmer-beneficiaries. (Recthie Tolinero/SMRN/PIA Misamis Occidental)
