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TFM ready to press Palace
on agrarian reform agenda

Members of the Task Force Mapalad will meet with Cabinet officials on the huge backlog of the government in the distribution of 1.093 million hectares of land to farmers, its press release said.

The TFM said the Department of Agrarian Reform should be ready to admit its failure to hasten land distribution in Negros Occidental, where 135,000 hectares of productive agricultural land have not been subjected to notices of coverage by DAR Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes.

The press release also said that this year, DAR has vowed to meet the target of 32,000 hectares from the original goal of 58,000 hectares but the consistent failure of De los Reyes to meet his commitment only exacerbated the skepticism of thousands of CARPER beneficiaries in Negros Occidental.

It also said that the TFM also took exception to the claim made by Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda, who claimed that the Aquino administration had distributed 111,889 hectares of land nationwide in 2011.

Lacierda said the lowest accomplishment figure was in 2009, when the DAR distributed only 54,495 hectares.

The TFM said that the problem with the Aquino government is that it took the DAR report hook, line and sinker, never validating the DAR claims and never asking the beneficiaries if they really took control of the land promised to them by De Los Reyes, the press release added.*

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