DAR installs 118 farmer beneficiaries in Negros Occ.
Bacolod City -- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) installed 66 farmer-beneficiaries in Brgy. Concepcion, Talisay City and 52 beneficiaries in Hda. Techie, Victorias City, Neg. Occ. or a total of 118 farmer beneficiaries, recently.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer Gideon Yonque distributed Certificate of Land Ownership Awards to the beneficiaries of the 90.2 hectares of land formerly owned by Lourdes Villanueva in Hda. San Isidro, Talisay and 84.6 hectares owned by Marie Josephine Lopez-Marquez in Victorias City.
Yonque informed the beneficiaries of their rights, duties and responsibilities as owners of the land, during the installation rites.
He reminded the farmers about their obligation to pay the Land Bank of the Philippines for the land amortization and the local government units for the land taxes.
Yonque also reminded the beneficiaries that support services will be made available to them by the DAR and other line agencies of the government.
(DAR/PIA)