DAR distributes 500 hectares of land in Negros Occidental

The DAR said it has distributed to the 244 farmworkers the property covering a gross area of almost 500 hectares of land in the cities of Cadiz and Sagay. 

 

The distribution of the four sugar estates began last Monday, the DAR added.

 

The biggest landholding distributed to farmworkers was Hacienda Cana-an in Barangay Mabini, Cadiz City whose gross area was 386.85 hectares of which 352 hectares were distributed to farmworker beneficiaries.

 

Each of the farmworkers in Hacienda Cana-an were given almost three hectares of farm lots as there were only 123 beneficiaries in the sugar estate.

 

After the installation in Hacienda Cana-an, DAR personnel proceeded to Barangay Bulanon in Sagay City to escort 36 farmworkers of Hacienda Vicente in their newly-owned farm lots covering 26.7 hectare.

 

The following day, DAR personnel trekked two kilometers to Barangay General Luna in Sagay City to install 23 farmworkers in Hacienda Susan, which covers 23.7 hectares of land planted with sugarcane.

 

The DAR officials and employees proceeded to Hacienda Rosemarie, also in Barangay General Luna, to install 43 farmworkers in the 50-hectare sugar estate.

 

DAR Assistant Secretary for Field Operations Teofilo Inocencio, who flew from Manila to supervise the distribution, attributed the success of the two-day event to the close coordination among farmers’ organizations and DAR personnel in Negros Occidental.

 

"We hope this level of cooperation among stakeholders in the agrarian reform program will help fast-track CARP (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program) implementation in Negros Occidental and replicated in other parts of the country," Inocencio said.