Land Acquisition and Distribution (LAD) : Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)

 Philippine Bill of 1902 – Set the ceilings on the hectarage of private individuals and corporations
may acquire: 16 has. for private individuals and 1,024 has. for corporations.
 Land Registration Act of 1902 (Act No. 496) – Provided for a comprehensive registration of land
titles under the Torrens system.
 Public Land Act of 1903 – introduced the homestead system in the Philippines.
 Tenancy Act of 1933 (Act No. 4054 and 4113) – regulated relationships between landowners and
tenants of rice (50-50 sharing) and sugar cane lands.
 Two bills - House Bill 4296 and Senate Bill 2278 - seeking to extend the Land Acquisition and
Distribution (LAD) component of CARP beyond June 30, 2014 or up until June 2015/2016 have
been filed at the Congress. President Aquino has certified both bills as urgent. Aquino also urged
the House and the Senate to prioritize the immediate enactment of the bills.
 Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms,

known also as CALPER or CARPer, (Republic Act 9700) is the
amendatory law that extends again the deadline of distributing
agricultural lands to farmers for five years. It also amends other
provisions stated in CARP.
 Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) identifies and screens potential

beneficiaries and validates their qualifications. Beneficiaries must be
least 15 years old, be a resident of the barangay where the land holding
is located, and own no more than 3 hectares of agricultural land.
 Executive Order no. 355 (The Land Settlement Development Corporation)
- (LASEDECO) was established to accelerate and expand the peasant resettlement A ii ii

Bureau of Agrarian Reform Information and Education program of the government.
However, due to limited post-war resources, the program was not successful.
 Republic Act no. 1199 (Agricultural Tenancy Act)
- Basically governed the relationship between landholders and tenant-farmers. This law
helped protect the tenurial rights of tenant tillers and enforced fair tenancy practices.
 Republic Act no. 1160
- Free distribution of Ressetlement and rehabilitation and Agricultural land and an Act
establishing the National Ressetlement and Rehabilitation Administration (NARRA).
 Republic Act no. 1400
- Known as “Land to the Landless” Program which sought improvement in land tenure and
guaranteed the expropriation of all tenanted landed estates.
 1935 Constitution – "The promotion of social justice to ensure the well-being and
economic security of all people should be the concern of the State"
 Commonwealth Act No. 178 (An Amendment to Rice Tenancy Act No. 4045), Nov. 13,
1936 – Provided for certain controls in the landlord-tenant relationships
 National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC), 1936 – Established the price of rice and
corn thereby help the poor tenants as well as consumers.
 Commonwealth Act. No. 461, 1937 – Specified reasons for the dismissal of tenants and
only with the approval of the Tenancy Division of the Department of Justice.
 Rural Program Administration, created March 2, 1939 – Provided the purchase and
lease of haciendas and their sale and lease to the tenants.
Commonwealth Act No. 441 enacted on June 3, 1939 – Created the National Settlement
Administration with a capital stock of P20,000,000.
 Republic Act No. 34 -- Established the 70-30 sharing arrangements and regulating
share-tenancy contracts.
 Republic Act No. 55 -- Provided for a more effective safeguard against arbitrary
ejectment of tenants.
 Republic Act No. 821 (Creation of Agricultural Credit Cooperative Financing

Administration) -- Provided small farmers and share tenants loans with low interest rates
of six to eight percent.
 Republic Act No. 3844 of August 8, 1963 (Agricultural Land Reform Code) -- 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. 6389, (Code of Agrarian Reform) and RA No. 6390 of 1971 -- 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.
 Presidential Decree No. 2, September 26, 1972 -- 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. 27, October 21, 1972 -- Restricted land reform scope to
tenanted rice and corn lands and set the retention limit at 7 hectares.
 Republic Act No. 6657, June 10, 1988 (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law) – 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.
 Executive Order No. 405, June 14, 1990 – 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. 407, June 14, 1990 – Accelerated the acquisition and distribution of
agricultural lands, pasture lands, fishponds, agro-forestry lands and other lands of the
public domain suitable for agriculture.
 Republic Act No. 7881, 1995 – Amended certain provisions of RA 6657 and exempted
fishponds and prawns from the coverage of CARP.
 Republic Act No. 7905, 1995 – Strengthened the implementation of the CARP.
 Executive Order No. 363, 1997 – 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.
 Republic Act No. 8435, 1997 (Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act AFMA) –
Plugged the legal loopholes in land use conversion.
 Republic Act 8532, 1998 (Agrarian Reform Fund Bill) – Provided an additional Php50
billion for CARP and extended its implementation for another 10 years.

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 Philippine Bill of 1902 – Set the ceilings on the hectarage of private individuals and corporations

 Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms,

 Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) identifies and screens potential

 Executive Order no. 355 (The Land Settlement Development Corporation)

- (LASEDECO) was established to accelerate and expand the peasant resettlement A ii ii

 Republic Act No. 821 (Creation of Agricultural Credit Cooperative Financing

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