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The Impact of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program to the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries of Lagangilang, and Dolores, Abra

Rhea A Quileza

 

Abstract:

One of the major interventions to effect rural development in the Philippines is the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program instituted in 1988, and its implementation is extended until 2014. This study used the quantitative and qualitative research methods to explore how the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries improved the lands granted to them through the CARP. It also investigated the status of the lands granted to the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries and its impact on them and their families. There were 20 farmers who were interviewed. Other informants were some employees of the Department of Agrarian Reform and other citizens of the locality. Most of the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries are high school graduates. Though they are into farming, they still seek another source of income since their income from farming cannot support the needs of their family. Lands granted to the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries have been the source of income by most of the farmer informants. They could send their children to school through the income they got from farming. More farmers continue to improve and use their lands for a living than farmers who have sold the land granted to them. Some of the sold lands given through CARP have become residential houses and business establishments. The Department of Agrarian Reform should monitor/ check the land granted to the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries. More livelihood programs are to be given to the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries.