THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has installed 76 Agrarian-reform beneficiaries in three separate CARP-covered land in the province of Cebu.

First to be installed were 43 farmer-beneficiaries at the 100.8-hectare property formerly owned by Paz Luna Agricultural Corp. in Barangay Tinubdan, Daanbantayan.

The second took place at the 16.6-hectare of Mendy Agricultural Development property in Barangay Mabuli, Tabogon, with 25 farmer-beneficiaries.               

The third group to be installed was at the 14.7-hectare cultivation area foreclosed by Aspac Rural Bank in barangay Manlagtang of the same town, where eight farmer-beneficiaries were finally installed.

The properties, with a combined land area of 132.1 hectares, were acquired through compulsory acquisition under CARP, according to Cebu Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer Isagani Yee.     

Yee urged the farmer-beneficiaries to pay their real-estate taxes and lots’ amortizations religiously to gain full ownership of their CARP-awarded lands.