BACOLOD CITY, July 9 -- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has granted debt relief amounting to PHP6.65 billion to 44,643 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) and turned over PHP95.5 million in support services to various ARB organizations (ARBOs) in southern Negros Occidental on Thursday.
This is the second leg of DAR-Negros Island Region's (NIR) three day distribution series dubbed "Padayon" (to continue or to carry on), after the distribution to ARBs in northern Negros Occidental in Cadiz City on Wednesday.
In a ceremony held at the Isabela Municipal Gymnasium, Undersecretary for Special Concerns Office and External Affairs Rowena Nina Taduran and DAR-NIR Director Lucrecia Taberna distributed 56,993 certificates of condonation wit...