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458 farmers, ex-rebels to receive land in Leyte Posted: 21 Mar 2021 08:36 AM PDT A TOTAL of 458 landless farmer-beneficiaries, including former rebels, are set to receive farmlands in Leyte under the national government's Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (Carp). "This is the government's way of showing that it is serious in resolving the long-standing issue about the five-decade-old insurgency problem – the inequitable distribution of wealth," said Department of Agriculture (DAR) OIC-Undersecretary for Field Operations Office Elmer Distor. On Friday, March 19, DAR Secretary John Castriciones and Leyte Governor Leopoldo Dominico Petilla signed the "Deed of Transfer" following the latter's turnover of 91.6 hectares of agricultural land "in compliance with President Rodrigo Duterte's directive to distribute all idle government lands to landless farmers and rebel returnees." "This is the result of our lengthy discussion with the Provincial Government of Leyte in compliance with the Executive Order 75, which President Duterte signed in February 2019," Distor added. The property will benefit 262 former rebels and 196 actual tillers of the subject land located in Barangay Daja Daku, San Isidro town. According to the DAR official, the property would be subdivided equally among the rebel returnees and actual tillers so that each of them would receive a share of 2,000 square meters. In a statement, Distor maintained that the transfer of 91.6 hectare "is a manifestation of the government's political will to distribute all government-owned lands to qualified beneficiaries on or before the President's term ends in June 2022." (SunStar Philippines) This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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