AGRARIAN Reform Secretary Rosalinda Bistoyong has set up the “agrarian justice on wheels” to pilot at agrarian reform communities to declog and fast-track the resolution of agrarian cases.
She said she saw a need to intensify aggressive efforts to resolve agrarian reform disputes.
With renewed commitments and bolstered faith, she added the Department of Agrarian Reform will now be on its toes to fulfill its mandate to emancipate the farmers and empower them to become a new breed of small landowners capable of improving their welfare.
Targets on support services consisting of farm organizational and continuing capacity development of beneficiaries, provision of capital through socialized credit and microfinance; transfer of technology, farm inputs, and farm equipment distribution will also be on high gear to make farmer-beneficiaries more productive in cultivating awarded lands.
“With concerted efforts and effective coordination, we will do and can do it,” she cited.
Bistoyong, undersecretaries, assistant secretaries, bureau directors, regional and provincial directors vowed to complete all land and acquisition and distribution targets, such as certificate of land ownership awards consisting of 48,000 hectares and subdivision of collective CLOAs totaling to 42,943 hectares.
Such “important” undertakings would stir DAR to a responsive agency of government, converging side by side with other Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program implementing agencies, such as the Department of Agriculture, Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Justice and National Housing Authority to bring the farmers to a higher level of development.