21 Farmers in Barcelona got CLOAs

The CLOA Distribution in Barcelona, Sorsogon

“In 1986 when President Cory Aquino assumed in her office and approved the passage of the Republic Act 6657, after thirty years, here’s your land title. It took a long time because the process is dragging. Anyway, it’s worth the wait,” Leonito M. Gaveria, Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II said during the distribution of Certificate Landownership Award (CLOA) in Barcelona, Sorsogon to the twenty one (21) Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) on February 22, 2017.

The ceremony was also attended by Domingo Venus, LBP representative; Cynthia Evasco, Municipal Assessor; and Atty. Manuel Fortes, Mayor of Barcelona who previously worked in DAR as Legal Officer expressing his concern for the tough work of DAR employees in processing the land titling.

Emmanuel M. Preña, the Technical Assistant in Barcelona encouraged the new ARBs to join Bangate Multi-purpose Cooperative or any agricultural organization so that they may have access on support services.

According to Engr. Noli O. Olitin, Chief in Land Tenure Improvement this is the first time that Barcelona had a CLOA distribution ceremony. Engr. Hilario Fruto, Jr. has also expressed his gladness that his municipal agrarian reform office (MARO) was able to contribute on the land acquisition and distribution (LAD) accomplishment of the province.

For the time being, DAR Sorsogon is still doing great effort to distribute more landholdings. The Task Force on Problematic Landholding is having an inventory, review, and validation of problematic landholdings on every municipalities of Sorsogon making their best to transform them into workable so that more farmers would be benefited. ###