Agricultural Lands And Land Reform Laws Flashcards
RA 1199
Agricultural Tenancy Act of the Philippines
two persons agree on a jointundertaking for agricultural production; one
party furnishes the land, the other his labor with either or both contributing any one or several of the items of production. The produce is divided in proportion to their respective contributions.
Share tenancy
a person, alone or with aid,
undertakes to cultivate a piece of agricultural
land belonging to or legally possessed by another; a price certain or ascertainable is to be paid by
the person cultivating the land either in percentage of production or fixed amount in money or in both.
Leasehold tenancy
one who cultivates the land belonging
to another
Tenant
natural or juridical person who
owns or legally possess a land and grants another to cultivate it
Landholder
TENANCY RELATIONSHIP
Juridical tie which arises between a landholder and a tenant once they agree, expressly or impliedly to undertake jointly the cultivation of land under chosen system, as a result of which relationship the tenant acquires the right to _____
continue working on and cultivating the land until and unless he is evicted of his holdings for any just causes.
Exemption from Lien and/or Attachment:
• Twenty five percent (25%) of tenant’s share of the
products in share tenancy
• Twenty five percent (25%) of the entire produce in leasehold tenancy
• One work animal less than five hundred pesos
• One of each kind of farm implements less than five hundred pesos
RA 3844
Agricultural Land Reform Code
This law abolished Share tenancy Act
RA 3844 Agricultural Land Reform Code
Effectivity date of RA 3844
August 8, 1963
What system of agricultural tenancy is to replace all existing tenancy system according to RA 3844?
Agricultural leasehold system
Agricultural Leasehold Relation
Extinguishment:
(1) Abandonment of the landholding without
the knowledge of the agricultural lessor;
(2) Voluntary surrender of the landholding by
the agricultural lessee, written notice of which shall be served 3 months in advance; Or
(3) Absence of the persons to succeed to the
lessee, in the event of death or permanent incapacity of the lessee.
PD 27
Tenant Emancipation Decree
Decreeing the emancipation of tenants from the bondage of the soil, transferring to them the ownership of the land they till and providing the instruments and mechanisms therefore.
PD 27
PD 27
Tenant farmer shall be deemed owner of a portion constituting a family-size farm of ___ hectares if not irrigated and ___hectares if irrigated.
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PD 27
Retention limit for landowner in all cases:
seven (7) hectares; provided that the land is cultivated or is to be cultivated
An Act instituting a comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program to promote social justice and industrialization, providing the mechanism for its implementation, and for other purposes.
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988 (Republic
Act No. 6657).
Approved date of RA 6657
June 10, 1988
Redistribution of lands, regardless
of crops or fruits produced, to farmers and regular farm workers who are landless,irrespective of tenurial arrangement, to include the totality of
factors and support services designed to lift the economic status of the beneficiaries and all other arrangements alternative
to the physical redistribution of lands.
Agrarian Reform
any agricultural land not
cultivated, tilled or developed to produce any crop nor devoted to any specific economic purposes
continuously for a period of three (3) years but
does not include land that has become permanently or
regularly devoted to non-agricultural purposes. It does
not include land which has become unproductive by
reason of force majeure or any other fortuitous event,
provided that prior to such event, such land was
previously used for agricultural or other economic
purpose.
Idle or Abandoned Land
RA 6657
RETENTION LIMITS
Retention limits as determined by the Presidential
Agrarian Reform Council (PARC):
Landowner: five hectares (5 ha)
- For EACH child: three hectares (3 ha)
- provided however that he is at 15 years old and that he is actually tilling the land or directly managing
the farm
private agricultural lands devoted to salt beds, fruit farms, orchards, vegetable and cut-flower farms, and cacao, coffee and rubber plantations.
Commercial Farms
Registration of Beneficiaries:
________ registers all agricultural lessees, tenants and farm workers who are qualified to be beneficiaries.
Barangay Agrarian Reform Council (BARC)
coordinate and monitor
the implementation of the CARP in the province;
provide information on the provisions of the CARP, guidelines issued by the PARC and on the progress of the CARP in the province
Provincial Agrarian Reform Coordinating Committee (PARCCOM)
The maximum area a beneficiary can be awarded is ____ hectares of contiguous tract or several parcels of land cumulated up to the prescribe award limits.
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