Aquino govt eyes distribution of 1.5 million hectares of farm land to informal settlers – Interaksyon.com.

Jakarta, Indonesia – The Aquino administration is eyeing the distribution of some 1.5 million hectares of farm land to an initial 560,000 informal settler families in Metro Manila in a bid to decongest the capital and improve agricultural production nationwide, President Benigno Aquino III said.

“One out of four families in Metro Manila are informal settlers. The Department of Agriculture and the Department of Environment inventory shows we can lend, lease or give two hectares of land per indigent family provided they cultivate agricultural crops, develop, and earn from the land they will live on,” President Benigno Aquino III said in a tete-a-tete with the media at the Four Seasons Jakarta Saturday night.

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