
SORSOGON CITY, Sorsogon (PIA) - - The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Sorsogon has produced the first 76 electronic-generated land titles under the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (Project SPLIT) project.
Since the implementation of Project SPLIT, DAR Sorsogon has produced the country's first batch of Computerized Titles or C-Titles, which will be awarded in April this year to agrarian reform beneficiaries.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Nida A. Santiago said of the 76 C-Titles produced, 72 will be awarded individually to the identified agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in the province next month.
Said land titles covering a combined area of 110.2848 hectares of agricultural land were taken from 12 Collective Certificates of Landownership Award (CCLOAs) that were subdivided recently by DAR.
"Our initial output is a portion of the 354.6172 hectares that have been prepared for parcelization and individual titling," Santiago said.
She further elaborated that they have targeted 8,461.1331 hectares in Sorsogon for the SPLIT project, and they have already verified at least 798.6433 hectares involving 84 CCLOAs spread across 13 municipalities.
Santiago reported that around 6,255 ARBs in the province are expected to get their land titles as a result of this project until 2024.
"The Field Validation Team’s (FVT) passion and commitment, together with DAR's collaborative working with the Registry of Deeds (ROD), resulted in a successful outcome," she added.
The FVT is composed of a legal officer, geodetic engineer, processors, environmental social safeguard (ESS) support staff, and documenter.
DAR is implementing the SPLIT project in 78 provinces of the 15 regions across the country that aims to subdivide collective certificates of land ownership awards into individual land titles.
This allows each farmer-beneficiary of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) to have full ownership and possession of the land, as well as complete control over cultivating it where he or she sees fit.
The World Bank funded the P24-billion SPLIT project, wherein 78 percent comprise the loan proceeds, while 22 percent serves as government counterparts.
The Project SPLIT is being implemented by DAR as the lead agency in partnership with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Land Registration Authority (LRA), Registry of Deeds (ROD), Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP), National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).
Started on October 2020, the project will end in 2024. (BAR/PIA5/Sorsogon/with reports from DAR5)
