Marcos distributes over 4,000 CLOAs in Negros Occidental

President Ferdinand ”Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Monday distributed a total of 4,724 Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) and Electronic Titles (e-titles) to 2,797 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Negros Occidental.

This is part of the Marcos administration’s commitment to distribute land titles to all beneficiaries, according to the Presidential Communications Office.

“Sa ating mga agrarian reform beneficiaries, maituturing po kayong mga buhay na bayani ng ating panahon. Kayo ang sandigan namin upang masiguro na sapat ang pagkain sa hapag ng bawat pamilyang Pilipino,” Marcos said in his speech in Bacolod City.

[To our agrarian reform beneficiaries, we consider you as our living heroes. We can depend on you in making sure there would be food for every Filipino.]

”Sa ating pagkakaisa, tiyak akong mapapayabong natin hindi lamang ang agrikultura dito sa inyong lugar, kung hindi pati na sa buong ekonomiya ng Pilipinas,” he added.

Marcos had directed the Department of Agrarian Reform to closely coordinate with the other agencies to hasten the distribution of the land titles.

The DAR targets to distribute 11,772 land titles to 7,848 ARBs in Negros Occidental this year.

Of the 4,724 land titles distributed, a total of 2,828 titles will be distributed to 1,551 ARBs in the northern part of Negros Occidental and 1,896 titles to 1,246 ARBs in the southern part of the province.

Marcos said the distribution of the CLOAs and the e-titles is part of the more than 11,000 titles that will be distributed to all ARBs of Negros Occidental this year. — Anna Felicia Bajo/RSJ, GMA Integrated News