DAR Negros Oriental hits over 100 percent target in 2011
by Jennifer Catan-Tilos
DUMAGUETE CITY, Jan. 11 (PIA) The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Regional Director Rodolfo Inson has announced that DAR Negros Oriental has exceeded its target by more than 100 percent on Land Tenure Improvement (LTI) in 2011.
Director Inson made the statement during the turn-over ceremony of Provincial Agrarian Reform Officers (PAROs) this week at Plaza Maria Luisa Hotel, Dumaguete City.
Information Officer Aileen Alaban-Villaseca of DAR Negros Oriental said the total target of 2, 645 hectares last year for Negros Oriental including the backlog in 2010, the target exceed by two hectares more with a total of 2,647 hectares or 100.07 percent.
CARP has three major components that include land tenure improvements (LTI), delivery of agrarian justice (DAJ) and program beneficiaries’ development (PBD).
Under the program’s LTI component seeks to secure the tenurial status of farmers and farm workers in the land they till. This is operationalized through land acquisition and distribution (LAD) or Leasehold Operations, said Villaseca.
PBD is CARP’s support services component. It aims to capacitate Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs ) and provide them access to necessary support services so as to make their lands more productive, enable them to venture in income generation livelihood projects and actively participate in community governance.
Inson said that this year’s target for Region 7 will reach to 9,000 hectares where the share of Negros Oriental is 4,000 hectares or 60 percent of the total regional target. (PIA/JCT)
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Military donates clothes to more than 5,000 victims of Sendong in Tanjay City
by Jennifer Catan-Tilos
DUMAGUETE CITY, Jan. 11 (PIA) – More than 5,000 families affected of tropical storm Sendong in Tanjay City have received assorted used clothings from the 302 Brigade, Philippine Army.
According to Public Information Officer, Captain Anacito Naz, the Brigade has donated six sacks of various used clothings recently to Tanjay City.
The items were turned-over to Mayor Lawrence Teves with City Social Welfare and Development Officer at the City Hall.
A total of 5, 293 families were affected in Tanjay from 18 barangays while 380 hectares of fishponds were damaged, 381 farmlands, 280 hectares of rice plantation, and 18 hectares of corn plantation.
Meanwhile, Brigade Commander Col. Francisco Patrimonio said that the 302 Brigade and its operationally controlled units continue to find ways in helping those families who were affected by the tropical storm “Sendong” in Negros Oriental.
Col. Patrimonio also said that the army troopers, CAFGUs and reservists personnel provide manpower and transportation assistance to government agencies, non-government organizations, local chief executives and other stakeholders in their relief operations to “Sendong” victims.
Recently, more than 50 military personnel, CAFGUs and reservists assisted the repacking of assorted relief goods of the ABS-CBN Cebu at the Silliman University Gymnasium in Dumaguete City. (PIA/JCT)
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Sibulan receives P570,000 disaster aid from Cebu province
By Rachelle M. Nessia
DUMAGUETE CITY, Jan. 11 (PIA) --- The municipal government of Sibulan in Negros Oriental received a financial aid in the amount of P570,000 from the provincial government of Cebu.
Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia personally handed over the monetary aid to Vice Mayor Antonio Renacia and Municipal Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Operations Head Concepcion Rosales on Jan. 10, 2012.
Gov. Garcia visited Sibulan town and some of the typhoon-hit local government units in Negros Oriental along with some mayors from Cebu province.
Vice Mayor Renacia thanked Gov. Garcia for her donation which will be used to help the victims of Typhoon Sendong in Sibulan and the repair of some of the damage infrastructure facilities in the town.
Rosales said the town is still under a state of calamity and will remain so until the displaced families are relocated.
The municipal government is currently taking care of seven families without homes and livelihood, she said.
Sibulan’s Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (MDRRMC) earlier passed a resolution requesting the Sangguniang Bayan to enact an ordinance banning the construction of houses within 20 meters from the riverbanks.
“This is also in consonance with the provision of the Water Code of the Philippines,” said Rosales.
To date, the council has recorded 12 deaths due to the typhoon with 280 totally damaged houses and 322 partially damaged houses.
Rosales pegs the damage caused by the storm on government-owned infrastructure facilities at around P10 million.
The hardest hit barangay is Tubtubon.
The other barangays reported to be affected by the storm are, namely: Looc, Poblacion, Ajong, Bolocboloc, Cangmating, Maslog, Magatas, Maningcao, San Antonio, Tubigon, Balugo, Calabnugan and Agan-an.
“The council still continues with its tasks of rehabilitating the damaged areas, monitoring weather conditions, and making plans for quick disaster response,” added Rosales. (RMN/PIA Negros Oriental)