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The House Committee on Appropriations, chaired by Ako Bicol Party-list Representative Zaldy Co, terminated the deliberation on the proposed 2025 budget of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) totaling P11.101 billion. Committee senior vice chairperson and Marikina City Representative Stella Luz Quimbo acknowledged that DAR’s financial support mechanisms, such as the allocation of billions in […]
A former member of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet threw the support of his group for presidential aspirant and Manila Mayor Isko Moreno, and at the proclamation rally of the Aksyon Demokratiko standard bearer explained that the candidate’s agriculture platform was one of the major reasons for the decision to back Moreno. Former Department of Agrarian […]
Members of the House committee on appropriations are pushing for a P5 billion additional budget in the Department of Agrarian Reform’s (DAR) proposed P8.8-billion 2021 budget to support the agency’s ‘mega farms’ project. The House committee found the allocation for the DAR’s budget too small for the agency to fully implement land distribution and acquisition […]
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) will give for free land owned by the government to landless Filipinos who will venture into agriculture on their return to the provinces. DAR Undersecretary Emily Padilla said the move is in support of the government’s Balik Probinsya program. DAR Secretary John Castriciones recently led the distribution of food […]
Various government agencies led by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with private organizations to improve market linkage for the farm products of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) in the Caraga Region. Organized under the Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) program of DAR and the Department of Social […]
The AGRI Party-list has voiced its support for Pres. Rodrigo R. Duterte’s order to all agencies to identify government-owned lands that can be distributed to land reform beneficiaries. Executive Order (EO) 75, which was recently signed by President Rodrigo Duterte, directs the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to acquire all government-owned lands originally devoted to […]