A total of 510 farmers in Quezon Province received their individual certificates of land ownership award (CLOAs) from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in a recent ceremony held in San Narciso town.
The CLOAs covered a total land area of 780 hectares in the towns of Bondoc Peninsula – Agdangan, Buenavista, Catanauan, Gen. Luna, San Andres, San Francisco and San Narciso. In the Lamon Bay area, the municipalities covered are Atimonan, Calauag, Guinayangan, Gumaca, Lopez, Quezon and Tagkawayan. David Erro, DAR Undersecretary for Policy and Planning, said the government vows to pursue their office’s cause to uplift the lives of poor farmers in the country.
Apart from the CLOAs, DAR also awarded certificates of full payment to 72 agrarian reform beneficiaries who have completed the payment of their awarded lands, under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program and paid fully the agricultural land for the past 30 years.
“I am so overwhelmed with happiness. I waited more than 20 years for this… now I can finally earn more for my family,” said Fausto Brazal, 67, a tree farmer from Calauag Quezon.
DAR distributes land titles in Eastern Samar / Photo credits to the owner.
Brazal who earns from farming trees like coconut, mahogany, and gemelina explained that profit sharing with his former employer is pegged at 60/40 where the 60 percent goes to the landowner and the 40 percent belongs to him.
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“Now that I’m a landowner, my share of the profit would be bigger. Plus, I can now plant any crops I want on my own land,” added Brazal.
Ngiti at ligaya ang idinala ng CLOA sa mga masipag na magsasaka ng Pilipinas
Another farmer-beneficiary Melecio Valenzuela, 55, married with four kids from San Narciso said he has been farming for more than 20 years.
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It is only during the administration of President Rody Duterte and the present leadership of DAR that he is assured of land ownership.
DAR distributes land titles in Eastern Samar / Photo credits to the owner.
“For the past 20 years, my wife and I were always fearful that we might be ejected from the farm. But with this CLOA, nobody can do that to us anymore,” Valenzuela said.
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This article first appeared on Department of Agrarian Reform.
sa mga namumuno ng DAR sa Quezon province napakaganda po ng nagawa ng inyong kagawaran sa pamimigay ng lupa sa mga magsasaka na benepisaryo ng agrarian reform ng Gobyerno pero sana po ay bigyan nyo din ng pansin ang libo libong magsasaka hindi lang sa Quezon kung hindi sa buong pilipinas na nabubuhay sa pagniniyog na halos d na makaahon sa kahirapan sa baba ng presyo ng kopra,na pag nag kopra ka kulang pa yung kita mo sa pambayad sa taong katulong mo sa pag kopra at wala ka ng kita para sa pamilya mo,napakarami ng panawagan tungkol dito pero mukhang nabingi na at nabulag ang mga taong Gobyerno na dapat na tumulong sa mga magsasaka ng niyog,
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