The Department of Agrarian Reform has recently distributed land titles to a total of 2,773 agrarian reform beneficiaries in the Davao region covering 1,958.10 hectares, according to Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III.

The distribution was held on 12 November and the DAR secretary was accompanied by Vice President Sara Duterte and Senators Imee Marcos and Christopher Lawrence "Bong" Go.

The agency also said that of the total ARBs who were awarded land titles in the Davao region over the weekend, 2,638 were given 1,905 electronic land titles or e-titles that covers a land area of 1,791 hectares.

Estrella, meantime, stressed that the e-titles were issued under the agency's Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling Project, which aims to improve land tenure security and provide individual land titles to those who have been awarded with collective Certificates of Land Ownership Award.

The remaining 135 ARBs, on the other hand, were awarded regular land titles covering the 166.12-hectare property of the Davao National Agricultural School, an idle government-owned land in Montevista, Davao de Oro.

Estrella stressed that the distribution activities are anchored on the President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s plans "to empower the farmers and boost the agricultural sector."

"The President had already asked the policy makers to pass a law to enable all the lands that will be distributed to the farmers be given for free," said Estrella.

The Vice President, on the other hand, said that this administration would continue to provide support to the farmers to help them improve their lives.