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DAR identifies 3 more ARCs

[ Manila Bulletin Online ] August 11, 2008

TACLOBAN CITY — The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Central Office recently confirmed three proposed areas in Eastern Visayas as agrarian reform communities (ARCs), DAR Region 8 Director Homer Tobias disclosed.

This shows that rural development continues under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, Tobias added.

Those confirmed were West Daram ARC and Parasan Island Special ARC both situated in the island municipality of Daram, Samar; and the third is Lapinig Special ARC in Lapinig, Northern Samar.

The formal launchings for the confirmed ARCs will be this month, Jose Alsmith Soria, DAR 8 regional information officer said.

More than 12 thousand residents in the 18 barangays covered by the said areas will surely benefit from the projects which will be implemented as part of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program’s support services component.

Of the said number of residents, about 600 are agrarian reform beneficiaries, Soria added.

ARCs are considered growth points in the countryside wherein projects extended by different stakeholders are implemented in order to improve agricultural production and increase household income in rural communities.

Studies showed that Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries living within the Agrarian Reform Communities are better off than their counterparts in non-ARCs.

Region 8 has now a total of 153 Agrarian Reform Communities, Support Services Division Chief Paulina Canales said. About 59 of these are recipients of projects such as those funded by World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the governments of Japan, Spain and Australia among others.

As of the moment, 45 ARCs all over the Region are awaiting approval of the CARP extension so that the implementation of the third phase of the Agrarian Reform Infrastructure Project (ARISP-III) funded by the Japanese Government thru the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), as well as the second phase of the ADB-funded Agrarian Reform Community Project (ARCP-II), could start, Tobias concluded. (PIA 8)
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