Manila, March 24 -- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is hoping to complete the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project in Ilocos Norte by next year with the subdivision of the remaining 6,000 hectares of land.

In an interview on Monday, engineer Vic Ines, Director III of DAR-Ilocos Norte, said the agency has been assisting individual beneficiaries in securing the needed documents to subdivide their properties under Project SPLIT.

"By next year, we hope to complete the SPLIT project with [the] remaining 6,000 hectares which need to be subdivided into individual titles," Ines told the Philippine News Agency.

Project SPLIT, a flagship initiative of DAR with World Bank funding, aims to fast-track the...