334 farmer-beneficiaries to benefit from ARC expansion
Some 334 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) in Brgy. Salngan, Passi city can now expect more intervention from the government geared to improve their productivity and way of life.
Brgy. Salngan is now an expansion area of the Jaguimitan-Alimono Agrarian Reform Community (ARC) in Passi City under the Agrarian Reform Development Project of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).
ARC is a convergence zone for the delivery of various support services such as infrastructure projects, livelihood and financing programs.
DAR 6 Assistant Regional Director for Operations Felicidad C. Bañares presented the Certificate of Confirmation to the officials of Brgy. Salngan and the Jaguimitan-Alimono ARC in a simple ceremony held at the barangay’s multi-purpose hall recently.
The Certificate of Confirmation is a proof that Brgy. Salngan is now officially included in the National ARC masterlist as a priority area for Program Beneficiaries Development (PBD) intervention and foreign-assisted projects.
Infrastructure projects like farm-to-market roads, post harvest facilities, basic social services such as potable water system, power supply, school and medical facilities are among the much needed support for development identified by the residents of Brgy. Salngan.
Bañares assisted by Passi City Vice Mayor Jovi Palmares and Iloilo Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer Eribardo Erispe also unveiled the Salngan-Jaguimitan-Alimono marker during the ceremony.
During the ceremony, some 13 farmers also claimed full ownership of the land they till after they received their Certificate of Land Ownership Awards (CLOAs) from Bañares and Erispe.
In her State of the Nation Address last Tuesday, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said that through the distribution of millions of hectares of land,700,000 indigenous people and more than a million beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)can proudly say they their own land.
The President said she will also ask Congress to pass the CARP extension immediately. (PIA)