Over 500,000 hectares of land handed out to tillers, DAR says

MANILA, Philippines – More than 500,000 hectares of farmlands has been distributed to beneficiaries ever since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in 2022, Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III said on Thursday. During the deliberations on the the proposed 2027 budget of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Estrella told members of the House of