50,000 hectares in Bicol to be tapped for CARP

LEGAZPI CITY: The regional office for Bicol here of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is targeting this year some 50,000 hectares of land for acquisition and distribution to land transfer beneficiaries under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in the region.

This target includes those that were part of the interrupted land acquisition and distribution (LAD) areas pipelined in 2013 and new lands scheduled for this year, all totaling 49,919 hectares, DAR Regional Director Luis Bueno Jr. on Monday said.