DAR to finish digitalization in 2025
THE DEPARTMENT of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Thursday said it seeks to finish digitalization efforts by October next year.
Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado M. Estrella III told a congressional hearing land reform data were in disarray when he took over in 2022, prompting the agency to enforce digitalization efforts.
It involves consolidating land ownership and reform data, including sold or leased tilling land and the number of farmers still in possession of state-provided farms.
“When we took over, the data were all over the place,” he told congressmen in Filipino during DAR’s budget hearing. “This is the very reason why we will engage in an honest-to-goodness digitalization project.” — Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio