Laws in agrarian reform

Question 1

50-50 crop sharing of landlord and tenants

Answer 1

Rice Share Tenancy Act of 1933

Question 2

establishment of corn and rice price.

Answer 2

National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC)

Question 3

Dismissal of tenant
must be approved by Tenancy Division of the Department
of Justice

Answer 3

Commonwealth Act. No. 461

Question 4

clear legal grounds must be
presented by landowners to reject tenants.

Answer 4

Commonwealth Act No. 608

Question 5

National Settlement Administration with a capital stock of
P20,000,000

Answer 5

Commonwealth Act No. 441

Question 6

Established the 70-30 sharing
arrangements and regulating share-tenancy
contracts

Answer 6

Republic Act No. 34 -

Question 7

Provided for a more effective
safeguard against arbitrary ejectment of tenants.

Answer 7

Republic Act No. 55

Question 8

Replaced the National Land Settlement
Administration with Land Settlement
Development Corporation (LASEDECO)

Answer 8

Executive Order No. 355

Question 9

Abolished the LASEDECO and established the
National Resettlement and Rehabilitation
Administration (NARRA)

Answer 9

Republic Act No. 1160

Question 10

governed the relationship between landowners
and tenant farmers by organizing share-tenancy
and leasehold system

Answer 10

Republic Act No. 1199

Question 11

Created the Land Tenure Administration (LTA)
which was responsible for the acquisition and
distribution of large tenanted rice and corn lands
over 200 hectares for individuals and 600
hectares for corporations

Answer 11

Republic Act No. 1400

Question 12

Provided small farmers and share tenants loans
with low interest rates of six to eight percent

Answer 12

Republic Act No. 821 (

Question 13

Abolished share tenancy, institutionalized leasehold,
set retention limit at 75 hectares, invested rights of
preemption and redemption for tenant farmers,
provided for an administrative machinery for
implementation, institutionalized a judicial system of
agrarian cases, incorporated extension, marketing
and supervised credit system of services of farmer
beneficiaries.

Answer 13

Republic Act No. 3844

Question 14

Created the Department of Agrarian Reform and
the Agrarian Reform Special Account Fund. It
strengthen the position of farmers and expanded
the scope of agrarian reform.

Answer 14

Republic Act No. 6389, (Code of Agrarian Reform)
and RA No. 6390 of 1971

Question 15

Declared the country under land reform program. It
enjoined all agencies and offices of the government
to extend full cooperation and assistance to the
DAR. It also activated the Agrarian Reform
Coordinating Council

Answer 15

Presidential Decree No. 2

Question 16

Restricted land reform scope to tenanted rice and
corn lands and set the retention limit at 7 hectares.

Answer 16

Presidential Decree No. 27

Question 17

Declared full ownership to qualified farmerbeneficiaries covered by PD 27. It also determined
the value remaining unvalued rice and corn lands
subject of PD 27 and provided for the manner of
payment by the FBs and mode of compensation to
landowners

Answer 17

Executive Order No. 228

Question 18

Restricted land reform scope to tenanted rice and
corn lands and set the retention limit at 7 hectares

Answer 18

Executive Order No. 229,

Question 19

Instituted the CARP as a major program of the
government. It provided for a special fund known
as the Agrarian Reform Fund (ARF), with an initial
amount of Php50 billion to cover the estimated cost
of the program from 1987-1992

Answer 19

Proclamation No. 131,

Question 20

streamlined and expanded the power and
operations of the DAR.

Answer 20

Executive Order No. 129

Question 21

An act which became effective June 15, 1988 and
instituted a comprehensive agrarian reform
program to promote social justice and
industrialization providing the mechanism for its
implementation and for other purposes. This law is
still the one being implemented at present.

Answer 21

Republic Act No. 6657

Question 22

Vested in the Land Bank of the Philippines the
responsibility to determine land valuation and
compensation for all lands covered by CARP

Answer 22

Executive Order No. 405

Question 23

ccelerated the acquisition and distribution of
agricultural lands, pasture lands, fishponds, agroforestry lands and other lands of the public domain
suitable for agriculture

Answer 23

Executive Order No. 407

Question 24

Amended certain provisions of RA 6657 and
exempted fishponds and prawns from the coverage
of CARP.

Answer 24

Republic Act No. 7881

Question 25

Strengthened the implementation of the CARP

Answer 25

Republic Act No. 7905

Question 26

Limits the type of lands that may be converted by
setting conditions under which limits the type of
lands that may be converted by setting conditions
under which specific categories of agricultural land
are either absolutely non-negotiable for conversion
or highly restricted for conversion

Answer 26

Executive Order No. 363

Question 27

Plugged the legal loopholes in land use conversion

Answer 27

Republic Act No. 8435,

Question 28

Provided an additional Php50 billion for CARP and
extended its implementation for another 10 years.

Answer 28

Republic Act 8532,

Question 29

Allowed the voluntary consolidation of small
farm operation into medium and large scale
integrated enterprise that can access longterm capital

Answer 29

Executive Order N0. 151,

Question 30

was
created to contribute to the overall goal of rural
poverty reduction especially in agrarian reform areas.

Answer 30

Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and
Economic Support Services (ARCCESS)

Question 31

provided
credit support for crop production to newly organized
and existing agrarian reform beneficiaries’
organizations

Answer 31

Agrarian Production Credit Program (APCP)

Question 32

a webbased legal system for recording and monitoring
various kinds of agrarian cases at the provincial,
regional and central offices of the DAR to ensure
faster resolution and close monitoring of agrarianrelated cases, was also launched.

Answer 32

legal case monitoring system (LCMS)

Question 33

to mandate the
Department of Agriculture-Department of
Environment and Natural Resources-Department of
Agrarian Reform Convergence Initiative to develop a
National Greening Program in cooperation with other
government agencies.

Answer 33

Executive Order No. 26

Question 34

New Agrarian
Emancipation Act

Answer 34

RA No. 11953