Agrarian Reform Sec. Conrado Estrella III faces destiny

CONRADO Estrella III looks forward to showing the public that his long, colorful journey as a public servant and the highly important job given to him by President Bongbong Marcos is a match made in heaven.

Estrella was appointed as Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform in early June 2022. To emphasize on his date with destiny, he is the grandson of Conrado Estrella Sr. the first Agrarian Reform Secretary, and who served strong in that capacity for a decade and a half.

Congressman Conrado Estrella III, with his long history as a lawmaker, has been vigorously fighting for the rights of the farmers and successfully authored a plethora of laws that directly aided them. It is actually an advantage for everyone concerned that he also shares the same advocacies, as that of his grandpa, in helping the agricultural sector.

For the record, the DAR was able to distribute 260,000 hectares of land during the latter’s time in office.

Estrella has proven himself to be an achiever in his own right when he became among the youngest elected representatives at age 26. He was voted to the country’s House of Representatives in both 1987 and 1995, representing Pangasinan’s 6th District. Then he took the same seat during the first decade of the new millennium.

In 2013 he succeeded his brother Robert Raymond as representative of ABONO party list, and then six years later he was designated as House Deputy speaker.

Among the acts Estrella is credited for includes the Organic Agriculture Act of 2010, the act to strengthen the resiliency of small farmers against climate change, the act declaring November as National Farmers and Fisherfolk month, and the act establishing the agriculture information system in all cities and municipalities.

The “grand son” of Agrarian Reform, a true fighter for truth who was cleared of pork barrel charges, is expected to lead the executive department in the distribution of farm land within the country.

He will definitely empower the potent force of a good mix of wisdom he inherited from his bloodline of effective leaders and the call for significant unity among Filipinos that the new administration vocally expresses.