The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) celebrates 26th anniversary of implementation in June bereft of a specific annual theme. In what was expected to be end of the Program, the land acquisition and distribution (LAD) scheme is still far from over, with President Benigno Simeon Aquino III certifying a bill as urgent that seeks to stretch the CARP Extension with Reforms (CARPER) until 2016 after holding a series of meetings with farmer leaders that represented a critical mass of land tillers awaiting full implementation of CARP.
Rubber is one of the major crops in the province of Basilan
From
a national LAD balance of 771,795 hectares as of December 2013, the DAR
in 2014 reduced and “cleansed” its records to 539,666 hectares,
excluding portions for retention and landholdings deemed problematic and
thus were deducted from the LAD target.
Even
if R.A. 9700, otherwise known as the CARPER Law that succeeded RA.
6657(Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law), ceases to exist, it
still allows support services for agrarian reform beneficiaries and the
delivery of agrarian justice to proceed beyond June 30, 2014. What was given a deadline was the LAD aspect of the Program.
A farmer beneficiary tends to black pepper seedlings in the nursery
For the province of Basilan,
a total of 603.6911 hectares is targeted for coverage this year. The
province has distributed a total of 25,175 hectares of which 18,674 hectares comprised of 11 agrarian reform
communities, excluding about 3,000 hectares more or less in Isabela
City. DAR Basilan CARP scope stands at 36,273 hectares.
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