Republic of the Philippines

POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

PUP Biñan Campus Building, Barangay Zapote,
Biñan City, Laguna

KATE COLEEN S. GONZALES PROF: MR. DENNIS R.ESTOCADO

BSBA-HRM 1-1
ACTIVITY 12: RPH
DIRECTION: DO A COMPARATIVE MATRIX OF THE AGRARIAN REFORM AND
LAND REFORM.
AGRARIAN EVOLUTION OF CONTENT IMPLICATION
REFORM THE AGRARIAN (SUMMARY/IMPORTAN OF LAW
REFORM T DETAILS)
A.THE -During the American - The Rice Share Tenancy Act of -If the tenant
PHILIPPINE Age and during the 1933 was introduced by earns less than
RICE SHARE presidency of President President Manuel L. Quezon fifty-five per cent
TENANCY Manuel L. Quezon. The when the Philippine of the net
first legislation Commonwealth was created. production, in the
ACT OF 1933
governing the This Act was intended to govern event that he
(ACT. NO. relationships of share-tenancy contracts by furnishes the
404) landlords and tenants setting minimum requirements. working animals
and the first law to This Act provides for 50-50 crop and the farm
legalize a 50-50 crop sharing, improved tenant- equipment, the
sharing agreement and landlord partnerships, 10% tenant and the
sugar cane was the interest per year and protection landlord shall
state of Agrarian reform against unfair dismissal by the share the costs of
in the Rice share landlords. planting and
tenancy act of 1993. cultivation on an
This Act was revised in 1936 to equal basis.
get rid of its advantage, but the
landlords made it relative and If the landlord
not absolute to its operation. In owns the work
fact, by 1939, thousands of animal and the
Central Luzon farmers were tenant owns the
threatened with full-scale farm equipment,
eviction. Thousands of tenants and the costs are
were ejected from farmland and split equally
rural violence in the early 1940s. between the
landlord and the
And as such, agrarian problems tenant, the tenant
persisted during the does not earn less
Commonwealth era. In the 1935 than half of the
Constitution, this inspired the

GONZALES, KATE COLEEN S

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POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
PUP Biñan Campus Building, Barangay Zapote,
Biñan City, Laguna

government to introduce a net harvest.

fundamental concept of social
justice. The settlement of public
agricultural land was started by
the National Land Settlement
Administration (NLSA).
Settlements of more than
65,000 hectares were developed
during World War.

B. - The Condition of - Philippines Agricultural - Agricultural

AGRICULTU Agrarian Reform in the Tenancy Act is to control the tenancy is the
Republic Act No. 1199 relationship between physical
RAL
Agricultural Tenancy landholders and agricultural ownership by one
TENANCY land tenants.
Act of 1954 regulated person of land
ACT OF THE
the relationship The Act is divided into four devoted to
PHILIPPINES between landowners agriculture
OF 1954 parts: General provisions,
and tenant farmers The share system, Tenancy belonging to, or
(R.A. 1199) during the leasehold and Security of legally possessed
administration of the tenure. The General provision by, another for
Phippine Republic and act provides for the the purpose of
President Ramon establishment, on the basis of producing through
Magsaysay by the concept of 'school' justice, the labor of the
organizing share- of agricultural tenancy ties former and his
tenancy and leasehold between landholders and immediate farm
scheme. The legislation tenants; provides adequate household, in
defined the protection security for the rights of both return for which
of tenure of tenants. tenants and landholders; the former offers
The Court of Agrarian ensures an equal division of to share the
the produce and income
Relations was also harvest with the
extracted from the land;
established. latter, or to pay a
provides incentives for
tenant-farmers to produce price definite or
more and more efficiently. ascertainable,
either in produce
In a share tenancy scheme, or in money.
the share system specifies
the rights and responsibilities
of the parties and governs a
particular form of contract, the
tenancy of a rice share, and
contracts for crops other than
rice. The Tenancy Leasehold

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POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
PUP Biñan Campus Building, Barangay Zapote,
Biñan City, Laguna

describes the parties' rights

and responsibilities under
leasehold contracts and
governs the use of the land
as compensation. The
Security of tenure section
comprises provisions relating
to the security of tenants.
Section 50 lists exclusive
reasons for a tenant's
dispossession.

C. It happens during - A major Philippine land -An act that

AGRICULTU Philippine Republic with reform law enacted in 1963 Create the
President Diosdado under President Diosdado agricutural land
RAL LAND
Macapagal presidency, Macapagal was the reform code and
REFORM Agricultural Land Reform
the state of Agrarian institute land
CODE OF Code.
Reform in the reform in the
1963 (R.A Agricultural Land Philippines,
3844 AND P. Policies that this code
Reform Code abolished declared such: Including the
D. NO. 27 OF tenancy shares, abolition of
1972) institutionalized leases, - Setting up the owner- Tenancy and the
set a retention cap of cultivation and economic channeling of
75 hectares, invested family-size farm as the base capital into
preemption and of Philippine agriculture. industry, and to
redemption rights for provide for the
- To achieve a dignified life
tenant farmers, free of pernicious institutional necessary
provided for the constraints and practices for implementing
introduction of small farmer. agecies, Sufficient
administrative funds, and other
machinery, - Applying labor laws without purposes.
institutionalized the inequality both industrial and
agrarian judicial system, agricultural wages.
incorporated extension,
- To provide more
marketing and
comprehensive and
supervised credit systematic program for land
system for beneficiary redistribution and the
farmers' services. allocation of public land.

- A system for agricultural

leaseholds to replace all
current agricultural share-

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 Republic of the Philippines
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
PUP Biñan Campus Building, Barangay Zapote,
Biñan City, Laguna

tenancy systems;
- A statement of agricultural
labor rights.
- The acquisition and equal
allocation authority of
agricultural land.
- The funding institution for
the purchase and sale of
agricultural land.

- The equipment for

extending credit and similar
agricultural assistance.
-A machinery to provide
agriculture with marketing,
management and other
technical services.
- A single government to
devise and execute land
reform programs.
- An improved land capability
survey, classification, and
registration program.
- A justice system to settle
problems occuring under this
code and other connected
laws and policy.

D. - Philippine Republic - President Fidel V. Ramos has - The findings

COMPREHE period, In the accelerated the introduction of suggest that
NSIVE Comprehensive former President Corazon agrarian reform
AGRARIAN Agrarian Reform Law, Aquino's Ambitious Agrarian has supported
President Corazon Reform Program (CARP) with a farmer-
REOFRM OF
Aquino Administration, view to reaching the ten-year beneficiaries.
1988 ( R.A the State of Agrarian deadline of Local governments, Between 1990 and
OF 6657 ) Reform was an act that and the group of businesses. 2000, it resulted in
became effective on The In 1992, with close to a higher real per
June 15, 1988 and quarter of a million farmers- capita incomes
created a beneficiaries, the government and lower poverty

GONZALES, KATE COLEEN S

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 Republic of the Philippines
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
PUP Biñan Campus Building, Barangay Zapote,
Biñan City, Laguna

comprehensive agrarian acquired and allocated 382 rates. As opposed

reform program to hectares of land. to non-ARBs,
promote social justice Agrarian Reform
and industrialization The shortage of funds to finance Beneficiaries
that provided the and execute the program was (ARBs) have
platform for its one major problem faced by the higher wages and
implementation and for Ramos administration. [5] The lower poverty
other purposes. At Php50 million allocated by R.A. rates.
present, this legislation No. 6657 from 1988 to 1998 to
is still the one being finance the CARP was no longer
applied. sufficient to support the
program. Ramos signed R.A. No.
8532 to amend the
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Law (CARL) to address this issue,
further strengthening the CARP
by extending the CARP.

In December 2008, CARP

expired and CARPer was
accepted the following year.
"CARPer stands for "Extension
with Reforms of the Extensive
Agrarian Reform Program". In
2014, CARPer expired.

E. - During President - On August 7th, 2009, the - Its purposes are

COMPREHE Gloria Macapagal Ambitious Agrarian Reform to provide
NSIVE Arroyo's administration Program Extension with landowners with
AGRARIAN in the Philippine Reforms (CARPER) Act was fair income and
Republic, the State of passed, granting CARP five more opportunities, to
REFORM
Agrarian Reform of the years to finish.The time period enable landowner
PROGRAM Comprehesive Agrarian was considered adequate to beneficiaries to
WITH Reform Program complete the acquisition of land have equitable
EXTENSION Extension with Reform, and the CARPER delivery land ownership, to
OF 2009 (R.A also known as CARPER, programme. increase
9700) was the amending agricultural output
legislation that Continuing the process of land and efficiency, to
extended the five-year redistribution only with respect hire more
deadline for the to landholdings which have agricultural
allocation of already been provided with employees, and to
agricultural land to notices of Coverage (NOCs) or end land
farmers again. Other landholdings with pending ownership

GONZALES, KATE COLEEN S

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 Republic of the Philippines
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
PUP Biñan Campus Building, Barangay Zapote,
Biñan City, Laguna

provisions mentioned in requests or applications. Cases disputes.

the CARP are also or arguments in civil matters.
amended. CARP Landholdings that do not have
requires not only the NOCs orafter June 30th, pending
distribution of land, but legal claims.
also a package of
support services, which Since the Philippine government
includes: credit aid, was only able to distribute 57%
extension services, of the targeted land during
irrigation facilities, CARP's initial ten-year mandate,
roads and bridges, the program was terminated.
marketing facilities and Extended for an additional ten
programs for training years in 1998
and technical support.

GONZALES, KATE COLEEN S

BSBA HRM 1-1