Manila, March 28 -- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has expanded the implementation of the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) Project in Negros Island Region (NIR), with the distribution of an initial 71 electronic land titles (e-titles) in northern Negros this year.

Project SPLIT aims to fast-track the subdivision of the Collective Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CCLOA) to allow farmer-beneficiaries to have full ownership of the land they are cultivating in consonance with the directive of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to accelerate the distribution of land titles.

At the Kape at Balitang Agraryo radio program on Friday, DAR-NIR Director Lucrecia Taberna said the latest e-titles, covering ...