Laws in agrarian reform Flashcards
50-50 crop sharing of landlord and tenants
Rice Share Tenancy Act of 1933
establishment of corn and rice price.
National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC)
Dismissal of tenant
must be approved by Tenancy Division of the Department
of Justice
Commonwealth Act. No. 461
clear legal grounds must be
presented by landowners to reject tenants.
Commonwealth Act No. 608
National Settlement Administration with a capital stock of
P20,000,000
Commonwealth Act No. 441
Established the 70-30 sharing
arrangements and regulating share-tenancy
contracts
Republic Act No. 34 -
Provided for a more effective
safeguard against arbitrary ejectment of tenants.
Republic Act No. 55
Replaced the National Land Settlement
Administration with Land Settlement
Development Corporation (LASEDECO)
Executive Order No. 355
Abolished the LASEDECO and established the
National Resettlement and Rehabilitation
Administration (NARRA)
Republic Act No. 1160
governed the relationship between landowners
and tenant farmers by organizing share-tenancy
and leasehold system
Republic Act No. 1199
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
Republic Act No. 1400
Provided small farmers and share tenants loans
with low interest rates of six to eight percent
Republic Act No. 821 (
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.
Republic Act No. 3844
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.
Republic Act No. 6389, (Code of Agrarian Reform)
and RA No. 6390 of 1971
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
Presidential Decree No. 2
Restricted land reform scope to tenanted rice and
corn lands and set the retention limit at 7 hectares.
Presidential Decree No. 27
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
Executive Order No. 228
Restricted land reform scope to tenanted rice and
corn lands and set the retention limit at 7 hectares
Executive Order No. 229,
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
Proclamation No. 131,
streamlined and expanded the power and
operations of the DAR.
Executive Order No. 129
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.
Republic Act No. 6657
Vested in the Land Bank of the Philippines the
responsibility to determine land valuation and
compensation for all lands covered by CARP
Executive Order No. 405
ccelerated the acquisition and distribution of
agricultural lands, pasture lands, fishponds, agroforestry lands and other lands of the public domain
suitable for agriculture
Executive Order No. 407
Amended certain provisions of RA 6657 and
exempted fishponds and prawns from the coverage
of CARP.
Republic Act No. 7881
