Agrarian beneficiaries to get P2.32B in support
The Department of Budget and Management
(DBM) has released P2.32 billion to the Department of Agrarian Reform
(DAR) to fund the implementation of the Aquino administration’s support
services for the agrarian beneficiaries.
The P2.32 billion is the partial release
allotted for the Program Beneficiaries Development (PBD), DAR’s support
service delivery component. The fund will benefit the following groups:
the agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs), who will get the bulk of the
said amount with P2.31 billion; rural women, who will get P4.3 million;
and landowners, who will also get P4.3 million.
The PBD’s goal is to support
beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in
making their lands more productive, helping them create
income-generating livelihood projects, and teaching them community
governance.
Secretary of Budget Florencio “Butch”
Abad said, “Filipino farmers who’ve been granted land under the agrarian
reform program will gain much from this fund release to DAR. Through
the PBD, the beneficiaries can make their farms more productive and
bring their produce quickly to the market, among others.”
Aside from increasing crop yields and
household income as well as helping the farmers organize themselves, the
PBD will also help women in the agricultural work force become
micro-entrepreneurs as part of DAR’s push for gender equality under the
CARP.
“The DAR’s continuing support to
agrarian beneficiaries is an important part of the agency‘s mandate to
achieve agrarian reform. At the same time, we want to ensure that the
government’s efforts to develop the rural areas will give our farmers a
sustainable future,” Abad said.
Tasked with distributing land to
landless farmers under CARP, DAR has managed to distribute a total of
6.9 million hectares of land or 751,514 hectares under this
administration. Though the extension of the CARP has already lapsed last
June 30, 2014, DAR is still continuing its mandated task of
distributing acquired lands covered by CARP as well as supporting the
beneficiaries.
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