The Department of Agrarian Reform will implement 18 farm-to-market road projects this year in the three districts of Negros Oriental, provincial agrarian reform officer Grace Fua said yesterday.

Six projects will be for barangays Lomogong, Bagtic-Sitio Lucay, Salvacion, Bantolinao-Candabong, Matobato, and Tinaogan in the first district; barangays Manincao, Tubigon, and Samac-Sitio Namonbon-Abis in the second district; and roads in barangays Lipayo-Tugawe, Malungcay Dako-Sitio Nagpanto, Calango, Mayabon-Najandig, Albiga-Bonbonon, Bonbonon-Siit, Benonsuran-Kuyagaw, and Manalongon-Milagrosa, in the third district, will be improved and rehabilitated, Fua revealed.

The projects were indorsed to Provincial Agrarian Reform Council Director Aurita Carlos of ARF Finance Management, after validation by the Provincial Agrarian Reform Coordinating Committee and the Provincial CARP Implementing Team.

The PARCCOM is the field level of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, and its multi-sectoral, collegial, deliberative and coordinative, although it is not the implementing body, Fua said.

It complements in each province the inter-agency national level set-up of the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council, the grassroots level body of the Barangay Agrarian Reform Committees, she added.

The PCIT is designated by Executive Order 406 to be the implementing arm of PARCCOMs. Its implementing agencies are the Departments of Environment and Natural Resources, Public Works and Highways, National Defense, Budge and Management, Trade and Industry, Land Bank of the Philippines, Land Registration Authority and the National Irrigation Administration.*RG

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