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Article: Agrarian reform program helps uplift lives of 158 individuals in Barotac Viejo.
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- Philippines News Agency
- Article date:
- August 6, 2008
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ILOILO CITY, Aug. 5 (PNA)- The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) did not only provide lands to landless farmers in Brgy. San Geronimo, Barotac Viejo but has helped them also become better entrepreneurs and earn some P2 million worth of assets two years after they were organized into an agrarian reform community (ARC).
Linda V. de la Cruz, chairperson of the San Geronimo ARC whose father was also an agrarian reform beneficiary (ARB), shared that she owed her degree to the agrarian reform program.
After being employed for eight years in a private company, she went back to Bgy. San Geronimo and joined other ARBs in forming an ...