The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) yesterday ordered the distribution of 358.22-hectare Tarlac Development Corporation (Tadeco) landholding, part of the vast sugar estate Hacienda Luisita in Barangays Balete and Cut-Cut in Tarlac City.

Thousands of lands may be covered by agrarian reform if House Bill No. 555 or the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill will be passed into law.

Secretary Rafael Mariano said, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is continuously receiving petitions of land holding that may possibly be subject to agrarian reform even if the issuance of notice-of-coverage or NOC had lapse in June 2014.