ARBs receive individual e-titles under World Bank-funded project

• Published date: 09 February 2023
• Publication title: Business Mirror

Since the implementation of the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project, 16,888 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) nationwide had already received their individual electronic land titles (e-tiles), according to the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).

All in all, the figure covers 18,802 e-titles for 23,898 hectares of agricultural lands nationwide, DAR Assistant Secretary for Field Operations Office and SPLIT National Director Joey Sumatra said.

The World Bank-funded SPLIT project aims to improve land tenure security and stabilize the property rights of some 1.14 million ARBs nationwide covering 1.37 million hectares of land, by subdividing the previously distributed collective certificates of land ownership award (CCLOAs), and turning them into individual land titles for distribution to qualified ARBs.

So far, the DAR had validated 522,688 hectares out of the 591,572 hectares funded for parcelization, representing an accomplishment of 88 percent, covering 50,249 hectares of previously distributed CCLOAs.

Sumatra, however, said these newly validated agricultural lands are still subject to re-documentation to complete the required documents for each ARB for submission to the Registry of Deeds (RODs) for eventual registration.

DAR Secretary Conrado Estrella III meanwhile announced that documents of another 38,196 hectares of farmlands are already submitted to various RODs...