MANILA — The Department of Agrarian reform will continue to support the beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and sustain the improvement of the agriculture sector in 2020, its top official said Thursday.
MANILA — The Department of Agrarian reform will continue to support the beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and sustain the improvement of the agriculture sector in 2020, its top official said Thursday.
In a statement, Agrarian Reform Secretary John Castriciones justified his department’s proposed budget, citing Executive Order No. 75, which places under the coverage of the CARP all idle government-owned agricultural lands”.
“From 1972 to June this year, around 4.8 million hectares of agricultural lands, 2.7 million hectares of which are privately owned, have already been distributed to some 2.87 million agrarian reform beneficiaries,” he said.
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