AGRI Law Flashcards
Emancipation of Tenant-Farmers from Bondage of the Soil (Tenant Emancipation Act)
PD 27
PD 27 date
October 21, 1972
PD 27 applies to tenant-farmers of private agricultural lands devoted to ___ under a system of ___, whether classified as landed estate or not
rice and corn, sharecrop or lease-tenancy
PD 27: Farmers to have ownership of family-size farm of
5 hectares if not irrigated
3 hectares if irrigated
PD 27: The landowner may retain an area of not more than ___ if such landowner is cultivating such area or will cultivate it
7 hectares
PD 27: the value of the land shall be equivalent to ___ immediately preceding the promulgation of this Decree
2 1/2 time the average harvest of three normal crop years
PD 27. The total cost of land, including interest at the rate of ___ shall be paid by the tenant in ___
6 per centum per annum, 15 years of 15 equal annual amortizations
land is not transferable except by
hereditary succession or to the government
tenant-farmer has to become a ___ to own land title
a full-fledged member of a duly recognized famer’s cooperative
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program of 1988
RA 6657
RA 6657 was approved on
June 10, 1988
RA 6657 effectivity date
June 15, 1988
DOJ Opinion No. 44, Series of 1990 state that with respect to the conversion of agricultural lands covered by RA 6657 to non-agricultural uses, the authority of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to approve such conversion may be exercised from the date of its effectivity of its effectivity, or on June 15, 1988. Thus, all lands that are already classified as ___ no longer need any conversion clearance
commercial, industrial, or residential before June 15, 1988
redistribution of lands regardless of crops or fruits produced, to farmers, and regular farm workers who are landless
Agrarian Reform
cultivation of the soil, planting of crops, growing of trees, raising of livestock, poultry or fish including the harvesting of such farm products and other farm activities and practices performed by a farmer in conjunction with such farming operations done by persons whether natural or juridical
Agriculture, Agricultural Enterprise or Agricultural Activity
devoted to agricultural activity, not classified as mineral, forest, residential, commercial, or industrial land
Agricultural land
any controversy relating to tenurial arrangement whether leasehold tenancy and stewardship concerning farmworker’s associations
Agrarian dispute
as amended by ___ remove the phrase “raising of livestock, poultry and fish” from Agriculture, Agricultural Enterprise or Agricultural Activity
Section 1, RA 7881