MASBATE CITY, June 21 -- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is set to distribute more than 6,600 land titles and Certificates of Condonation with Release of Mortgage (COCROM) to more than 5,000 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in the Bicol Region.

In a media release on Friday night, DAR 5 (Bicol) Director Reuben Theodore Sindac said this is part of the ongoing implementation of Republic Act (RA) 11953 or the New Agrarian Emancipation Act, signed into law by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on July 7, 2023.

RA 11953 aims to alleviate the financial burdens of ARBs by condoning their unpaid loans, interests, and surcharges while ensuring tenure security through the distribution of land titles.

Sindac said the ceremonial distribu...