DAR to provide low-cost housing for farmer-beneficiaries
QUEZON CITY—As the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) celebrated the 30 th anniversary of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), it also disclosed its latest package of assistance for agrarian reform beneficiaries, that is, the provision of affordable housing for agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) as part of its support services under CARP. ARB housing program for the CARP farmer-beneficiaries. Model unit located at the Nueva Vizcaya State University. According to DAR Secretary John Castriciones, the farmers’ and farmworkers’ housing program shall be part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s order for a “rebirth” of land reform in the country, as he directed the DAR to launch what he described as a second phase of the program. Under the second phase of agrarian reform, the ARBs housing program shall be one of the major programs that would greatly improve the living condition of agrarian reform beneficiaries citing that most of the farmers and farmworkers...