SCIENCE CITY OF MUĂ‘OZ: Various agencies and farmers organizations have expressed fears about the failure of the government to finish land distribution before the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program expires in 2008.
Representatives from the government, business sector and farmers groups meeting for the Provincial Consultation on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development at Central Luzon State University called for an extension of the CARP to have its mission realized.
The appeal was made des-pite assurances from Ileona B. Pangilinan, provincial agra-rian reform officer for Nueva Ecija-North, that her agency has tried to speed up the implementation of the program through improvements to its legal and operations divisions.
Macario Bueno, chairman of the organization of agrarian reform beneficiaries in the province, said that partners, such as the Land Bank of the Philippines and the Cooperative Bank of Nueva Ecija, also face problems should the CARP expires in 2008.
There are also a lot of agra-rian cases pending because government lawyers have to attend to before leaving them to the farmers, he said.
We should understand that CARP is far beyond mere land distribution, it is tied with a lot of assistance to us such as production, infrastructure and marketing. It also covers corn and sugar-cane not only rice, Bueno said in the vernacular.
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