Since the start of the Marcos administration in July 2022, the Department of Agrarian Reform in Davao Region (DAR-11) has already distributed 5,320 e-titles.

During the Kapihan sa Bagong Pilipinas forum here on Tuesday, DAR-11 Assistant Director Charlotte Sison said the electronic titles have been given to 7,991 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) across 6,338.63 hectares of land in the region as of May.

“For now, we are continuing our validation for other beneficiaries,” Sison said. “DAR will validate if the ARBs are the poorest of the poor.”

DAR-11 Officer-in-Charge Jazon Collado said the Land Tenure Improvement Division has already installed eight of 32 ARBs in their landholdings and validated 277 out of 659 landholdings, covering an area of 1,004 hectares out of 2,709 hectares.

With the farm-to-market roads (FMR) and Tulay ng Pangulo (President’s Bridge) program, 3,403 ARBs in Davao City will be able to transport their agricultural produce to markets in their localities, bolstering economic development in the region, the agency said.

The FMR projects in rural villages have a combined total length of 6.42 kilometers and a project cost of PHP100 million. (PNA)