A total of 200 hectares was issued to 236 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) through the certificate of collective land ownership award (CCLOA) way back in 1995, but the farmer-beneficiaries have yet to be awarded individual titles to this day.
AGRARIAN Reform (DAR) Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and Research Office and concurrent Undersecretary for External Affairs and Communications Operations Office, Atty. David D. Erro, who is the Chairperson of the Task Force-Tinang Tarlac assured the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) that the DAR will continue to look into the land conflict involving Hacienda Tinang in Concepcion, Tarlac.
“These farmers have undergone validation to qualify as beneficiaries of the disputed land in Hacienda Tinang,” he said.
Erro disclosed that after the validation, the initial list of qualified beneficiaries will be published through tarpaulin or billboard, and if nobody opposes, or seeks inclusion or exclusion, then individual titles shall be generated and subsequently, and install them.
“We will still have to identify the specific lot for each of them,” Erro said.
He warned them that such cultivation activity ahead of the issuance of notice of qualified beneficiaries could have legal consequences.
“Even though one is identified as a beneficiary, they can still be disqualified if premature entry is done if they are not yet formally installed,” he said.
“We will not immediately disqualify them, we will afford them due process,” he said.
A total number of ninety-one (91) persons were arrested and detained by the Concepcion town police office on June 9. Some were released the following day, while 83 persons – including farmers, land reform advocates, artists, and journalists – spent three days in detention before their release on Sunday, June 12.
A total of 200 hectares was issued to 236 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) through the certificate of collective land ownership award (CCLOA) way back in 1995, but the farmer-beneficiaries have yet to be awarded individual titles to this day.
