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Article: President underscores need to extend Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.
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- Philippines News Agency
- Article date:
- March 29, 2008
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MANILA, March 29 (PNA) - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo stressed on Saturday, the need to extend anew the governments Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), to ensure the distribution to farmer beneficiaries of some two million hectares of agricultural lands all over the country.
The extension of the CARP is part of the Presidents policy to support the countrys farmers and at the same time promote food security and alleviate poverty.
In June last year, the President certified as urgent a bill seeking to extend the life of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) after Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Nasser Pangandaman ...