00:00More than 8,000 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries in Western Visayas
00:05received almost 14,000 titles of their land for agriculture in 2024.
00:12More than 1.5 billion pesos of the agrarian debt was denied by the government.
00:18J.P. Herbas has a national news report from Radio Pilipinas, Iloilo.
00:24More than 8,400 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries in Western Visayas
00:31received more than 13,000 titles of their land for agriculture in 2024.
00:39According to the Department of Agrarian Reform in Western Visayas,
00:42more than 10,000 titles were distributed to Negros Occidental
00:46while more than 3,000 titles were distributed to ARBs in Panay and Guimaras.
00:52Most of the titles were distributed by President Ferdinand R. Marquez Jr.
00:58during his visit to Bago City, Negros Occidental in April and Pasi City, Iloilo in September.
01:05The government also started the distribution of Certificate of Condemnation and Release of Mortgage or COCROM
01:10to ARBs under R.A. 11953 or the New Agrarian Emancipation Act that was passed by the President.
01:17More than 778.5 million pesos of debt was collected by the bank
01:22and more than 6,400 ARBs from Capiz, Guimaras and Iloilo were denied by the government.
01:28COCROM also distributed more than 6,100 ARBs to Negros Occidental
01:33with 816 million pesos of collected debt.
01:37As of 2025, the government's agricultural assistance will continue
01:41especially since the President believes that the success of every farmer is the success of every Filipino.
01:48From PBS Radyo Pilipinas, I am JP Hervas for Balitang Pambansa.
