post-War interventions toward Agrarian Reform

The war stared in 1936 that gives tribulation not only for Filipino but for all
mankind and the previous land reform program was being compromised. After
the war end due of the willingness of the government to helped their people
during the post-war the Rehabilitation and rebuilding after the war were focused
on providing solutions to the problems of the past war.

President Roxas administration

 Passed a Republic Act No. 34

 70-30 sharing arrangement between tenant and landlord
 To reduced the interest of landowner’s loan to tenants at 6% or less
 The government also attempted to redistribute hacienda lands

President Elpidio Quirino

 He established the Land Settlement Development Cooperation (LASEDECO)

 To accelerate and expand the resettlement program for peasant
 This agency later on become the National Resettlement Administration
(NARRA) under president Ramon Magsaysay

Magsaysay saw the importance of pursuing genuine land reform program and
convinced the congress, majority of which were landed elites, to pass legislation to
improve the land reform situation he pass.

Republic Act No. 1199 (Agricultural Tenancy act)

 To govern the relationship between landholders and tenant farmers, protecting

the tenurial right of tenants and emforce the tenancy policies.
  Through this law the court of Agricultural Relations was created in 1955
 To improve tenancy security fix land rental of tenanted farms
 And resolve land disputes filed by the landowner and pleasant
organization
 the Agricultural Tenancy Commission was also established to administer problem
created by tenancy
 the Agricultural credit and Cooperative financing Administration (ACCFH) was
also created to provide warehouse, facilities and assist farmers in marketing their
products

NARRA accelerated the government’s resettlement program and distribution of

agricultural land to landless tenants and farmers. It also aimed to convince member of
the HUKs , to resettle in the area where they could star their lives as peaceful citizen

Despite a more effort toward agrarian reform, the situation for the farmers remained dire
since the government lacked of funds. The landed elite did not cooperate and but they
criticize the program.

A major stride in land reform arrived during the term of President Diosdado Macapagal
through the Agricultural Land Reform Code (Republic Act No. 3844)

Declaration of Policy under RA No. 3844 0r Agricultural Land Reform

Code

Source: Section: Declaration of policy- it is the policy of the state:

1. to establish owner-cultivatorship and economic family-size farm as the basis of

Philippine agriculture and, as a consequence, divert landlord capital in agriculture
to industrial development;
2. to achieve a dignified existence for the small farmers free from pernicious
institutional restraint and practice;
3. to create a truly viable social and economic structure in agriculture conductive to
greater productivity and higher farm income;
4. to apply labor laws equally and without discrimination to both industrial and
agricultural wage earners;
5. to provide a more vigorous and systematic land resettlement program an public
land distribution; and
6. to make small farmers more independent, self-reliant and responsible citizens,
and a source of genuine strength in our democratic country.

The code abolished share tenancy in the Philippines and prescribed a program to
convert tenant-farmer to lesses and later on owner-cultivators.

It also aimed to free tenants from tenancy and emphasize owner-culivatorship and
farmer independence, equality, productivity improvement and public land distribution