The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is hoping to complete the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project in Ilocos Norte by next year with the subdivision of the remaining 6,000 hectares of land.
In an interview on Monday, engineer Vic Ines, Director III of DAR-Ilocos Norte, said the agency has been assisting individual beneficiaries in securing the needed documents to subdivide their properties under Project SPLIT.
“By next year, we hope to complete the SPLIT project with [the] remaining 6,000 hectares which need to be subdivided into individual titles,” Ines told the Philippine News Agency.
Project SPLIT, a flagship initiative of DAR with World Bank funding, aims to fast-track the subdivision of Collective Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CCLOA) to allow farmer-beneficiaries to have full ownership and possession of the land they are cultivating.
In consonance with the directive of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to accelerate the distribution of land titles, the World Bank has extended the project’s implementation until 2027.
The project, which was initiated in 2020, was supposed to end in 2024, but due to the rigorous preparation of pertinent documents, DAR requested for a three-year extension to complete the subdivision of around 1.38 million hectares of CCLOA nationwide.
In Ilocos Norte, Ines said the processing of the individual e-land titles under Project SPLIT is making significant progress. (PNA)