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Carp 1
Carp 1
Many agencies are involved in the implementation of CARP. The lead agencies are the
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), and the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR). They are in charge of the identification and distribution of covered
land, and is commonly refererred to as CARPable land.
As of December 31, 2013, the government has acquired and distributed 6.9 million
hectares of land, equivalent to 88% of the total land subject to CARP.
From July 2010 to December 2013, the administration has distributed a total of 751,514
hectares, or 45% of the total landholdings to be distributed to the farmer beneficiaries
left under this administration.
From this, DAR has distributed 412,782 hectares and DENR has already distributed
338,732 hectares.
7. How much land does the government still need to acquire for distribution from
2014 to 2016?
DAR still needs to acquire 771,795 hectares, while the DENR still needs to acquire
134,857 hectares—a total of 906,652 hectares.
There are different modes of acquiring and distributing public and private agricultural
lands. For private lands under compulsory acquisition, the DAR will issue Notices of
Coverage to the original owners of the landholdings. Notices of Coverage will be issued
to most of the landholdings by June 30, 2014.
10. After the period of time allotted for CARPER by law is passed (August 7, 2009
to June 30, 2014), how will the remaining landholdings, which are subject to
compulsory acquisition, be distributed to the beneficiaries?
As long as Notices of Coverage are issued on or before June 30, 2014, land distribution
to beneficiaries shall continue until completion, according to Section 30 of CARPER
(R.A. No. 9700). Meaning, even after CARPER’s deadline, the law itself mandates the
concerned agencies to finish distributing lands to the beneficiaries up to the very last
hectare. This assures to the farmers that the process for receiving their land will
continue (e.g., beneficiary identification, survey, generation, and registration of land
titles to beneficiaries).
11. How does DAR intend to deal with the remaining landholdings (771,795
hectares) to be distributed?
DAR projects that it will be distributing 187,686 hectares in 2014; 198,631 hectares in
2015; and 385,478 hectares in 2016.
In some cases, technical descriptions in the land titles (which determine the boundaries
of the land) were found to be erroneous and had to be corrected. Some titles were
destroyed, and therefore, had to be reissued by undergoing a court process, similar to
filing a case. Potential beneficiaries argued among themselves on who should or should
not be qualified as beneficiaries; these disputes had to be mediated or resolved by the
government. In other cases, landowners may petition that their lands be exempted or
excluded from CARP coverage, and some of these petitions have gone up to the
Supreme Court.
Smaller parcels of land (5 hectares to 10 hectares) were only processed in the last year
of implementation of CARPER (July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014). Past efforts focused on
bigger parcels of land, which involved more paperwork to process. Now that efforts are
focused on smaller but more numerous cuts of land, there are more claim folders to
process and distribute.