DAR to distribute Luisita land titles starting next week

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) will start distributing land titles to qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries in the 10 barangays of Hacienda Luisita next week.

DAR Undersecretary for Legal Affairs Anthony Parungao yesterday said the department would distribute the certified true copies of the Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOAs) to farmworker-beneficiaries (FWBs) starting Sept. 30 up to the middle of October.

As of Sept. 25, he said the CLOAs of about 5,800 FWBs who had signed and filed their Application to Purchase and Farmers Undertaking (APFU) were generated by the DAR and registered with the register of deeds.

However, 296 FWBs have yet to claim their Lot Allocation Certificates (LACs), while 377 others have yet to sign and file their APFUs.

Parungao said the DAR continues to seek out the FWBs who have yet to claim their LACs or file their APFUs. A good number of them are either working abroad or living outside of Tarlac, so they are unable to claim their LACs or file their APFUs.

“Their CLOAs will be generated and registered as soon as they have signed their APFUs,” he said.