The Department of Agriculture (DAR) is expected to resolve at least half of its 2,400 “vintage” Agrarian Law Implementation (ALI) cases this year.
The Department of Agriculture is expected to resolve at least half of its 2,400 “vintage” Agrarian Law Implementation cases this year.
Among the recently resolved cases, he said, was the agrarian land issue in Hacienda Tinang in Concepcion, Tarlac, which involved a dispute between two farmers groups involving over 600 hectares of land. Aside from the ALI cases, Estrella said the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board also has another 2,300 pending cases.Estrella attributed DAR’s large backlog to lack of personnel, explaining since they only have 64 lawyers to handle pending cases.“We are unable to accelerate [our case resolution] since we lack lawyers and we can hire initially with only P50,000 starting salaries. This made it difficult for us to hire credible and capable lawyers,” Estrella said.
“With our Scrap and Build Program, we were able to produce 64 positions for Attorney IV with a salary of P82,000,” Estrella said.
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