COTABATO CITY (December 27, 2016) – A total of 237 Certificates of Land
Ownership Award (CLOA) were conferred today to beneficiaries under the
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in the town of Siasi in Sulu.
In a
ceremony led by regional Agrarian Reform Secretary Amihilda Sangcopan, agrarian
reform partners from Tulling Farm Workers Multi-Purpose Cooperative of the
Tulling Agrarian Reform Community (ARC) formally received their land ownership
certificates.
Local
conflicts arising from land disputes due to ambiguous boundaries of individual
lots hampered cooperative activities and thus exacted a toll on the area’s
productivity in the past.
DAR-ARMM’s
initiative of conducting a relocation survey, erecting monuments leading to the
turnover of CLOA is a landmark intervention by the regional government in
solving agrarian reform issues in the community.
Provided
for under Republic Act 6657, or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law, CLOA is
intended to promote social justice among the marginalized, specifically workers
in the agricultural sector, through land tenure.
It is a
legal document that serves as an evidence of ownership, subject to
restrictions, and secures the tenure of the farmers to the agricultural land
they till. Among its basic restriction is that the beneficiary could not sell,
transfer, or donate the land awarded to him over a period of 10 years after he
received the certificate.
The
land area covered by Tulling ARC used to be owned by Filagro Corp. before it
was covered by CARP in 1991. The farm workers then were considered as
agricultural laborers who do not have the rights over the land they till.
The
Tulling ARC is situated in the northern part of the island municipality of
Siasi. The town is composed of five barangays namely Tulling, Siundoh, Manta,
North Manta, Minapan. (Bureau of Public Information)
(By
JC-MPF with PR from Bureau of Public Information – ARMM)
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