MORE than 4,000 Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOAs) will be distributed by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Negros Occidental.

The DAR said that 4,724 CLOAs comprising 2,550 hectares of land to 2,797 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) of Negros Occidental.

According to DAR Secretary Conrado Estrella III, they will be distributing the land titles which were generated under the new lands and the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling or Project SPLIT to be held at the Manuel Y. Torres Memorial Coliseum and Cultural Center, Bago City, Negros Occidental.

Likewise, Estrella III said that this is in part with the promise of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s call to speed up the distribution of land ownership titles to farmer-beneficiaries of agrarian reform.

They also aim to provide support to help the ARBs improve their living conditions.

“To ensure the ARBs’ success, over 59- million worth of support services will be distributed to nineteen (19) ARB organizations (ARBOs) in Negros Occidental which include farm-to-market road (FMR) projects, Tulay ng Pangulo Para sa Kaunlarang Pang-Agraryo (TPKP project) and farm machineries and equipment (FME),” Estrella said.