The Philippines and Agrarian Reform

Land inequality, tenure security, property rights, and agrarian reform These are
the issues that the Filipinos have been facing since the colonization period in the
country. Interconnected with each other, focusing on agrarian reform will reveal the
connection with the other issues dealt with as mentioned. The Department of Agrarian
Reform (DAR) is responsible for this reform program of granting lands to agricultural
workers like farmers, whose conditions of working for a span of years depend upon how
the law is enacted and billed. I learned further that this reform was implemented to
decrease the poverty rate by awarding land to farmers in order for them to develop it (to
increase production for an economic boost, certainly). This is because the country has
been the producer of coconut, banana, and pineapple for other countries since ancient
times and is therefore an exporter of goods, which contributes to stability and even
progress. Not only this, but the reform also aimed to resolve the root issue of poverty by
enabling the poor to provide for themselves and their families (for the common good).
However, the landowners where the government commonly buys land were not in favor
of this, for they focused more on political and social status gains. As a response, the
government produced the Agricultural Tenancy Act of 1954 to create a sharing of
benefits among owners and developers of land.

But to reflect on contemporary times, I believe there have to be more reforms,

polishing, and new laws to fill the gap that agrarian reform sets. Consider how the land
was quickly turning into buildings or industrial construction; there are fewer lands to
develop in terms of agriculture. Based on the video, many do not want to farm, as
people prefer to work in offices. This raises concern in the education and political
sections to act with urgency to collaborate and create internal and external points to
eliminate the negative possibility of this happening. Either we work better for agriculture
to rise again or we lose it.