Agrarian Law and Social

Legislation
A Group 1 presentation on the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (Republic Act No. 6657)
Sections 1 to 35
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
“FIELD”
 Agrarian

 Comes from the Latin word “ager”, means field.

 Lexically, anything related to land or to the ownership or
division of land.

Obyus ba?
 Agrarian Law

 - the distribution of pubic agricultural lands, large estates, and regulation of the
relationship between the landowner and the farmer who works on the land.

- Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law is the basic law, supplemented by the Tenant’s
Emancipation Act of 1972 (PD no. 27) and the Agricultural Land Reform Code (RA
3844)*

*Under President Diosdado Macapagal’s time. Alam na ung PD kung kanino.

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What’s the objective of the law?

 To breakup agricultural lands;

 Transform them into economic-size farms owned by the farmers themselves;
 And to uplift their socio-economic status.

Government
What was it founded on?

 the right of the farmers and regular farm workers who are landless, to own and directly, or
collectively the lands they till or, in the case of other farm workers, to receive a just share
in the fruits thereof.

 on the farmers and regular farm workers who are landless, to own and directly, or
collectively the lands they till or, in the case of other farm workers, to receive a just share
in the fruits thereof.
 After all, as they say, “magtanim ay di biro”!
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Social Legislation
What is it?

 there’s no precise definition.

 it’s so BROAD that it covers labor laws, agrarian laws, and welfare laws.
 emphasizes general public good and social welfare.

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Article 13, Section 1 of the 1987 Constitution

 The Congress shall give highest priority to the enactment of measures that protect and
enhance the right of all the people to human dignity, reduce social, economic, and political
inequalities, and remove cultural inequities by equitably diffusing wealth and political
power for the common good. To this end, the State shall regulate the acquisition,
ownership, use, and disposition of property and its increments.
Article 13, Section 2 of the 1987 Constitution

 The promotion of social justice shall include the commitment to create economic
opportunities based on freedom of initiative and self-reliance.
Sec. 35
Creation of Support Services Office
What is it?

 The office of the DAR that provides general support and coordinative services in the
implementation of the program with particular services to farmer-beneficiaries and affected
landowners.
 the Office of Support Services is headed by an Undersecretary of the department (details
on her later)
Specific services

 1) Irrigation facilities, especially second crop or dry season irrigation facilities;

 2) Infrastructure development and public works projects in areas and settlements that come
under agrarian reform, and for this purpose, the preparation of the physical development
plan of such settlements providing suitable barangay sites, potable water and power
resources, irrigation systems and other facilities for a sound agricultural development plan;
 3) Government subsidies for the use of irrigation facilities;
 4) Price support and guarantee for all agricultural produce;
 5) Extending to small landowners, farmers' organizations the necessary credit, like
concessional and collateral-free loans, for agro-industrialization based on social collaterals
like the guarantees of farmers' organization:
 6) Promoting, developing and extending financial assistance to small-and medium-scale
industries in agrarian reform areas;
 7) Assigning sufficient numbers of agricultural extension workers to farmers'
organizations;
 8) Undertake research, development and dissemination of information on agrarian reform
and low-cost and ecologically sound farm inputs and technologies to minimize reliance on
expensive and imported agricultural inputs;
 9) Development of cooperative management skills through intensive training;
 10) Assistance in the identification of ready markets for agricultural produce and training
in other various prospects of marketing; and
 11) Administration operation management and funding of support services, programs and
projects including pilot projects and models related to agrarian reform as developed by the
DAR.
 Who is the DAR undersecretary for the Office
of Support Services?
 Atty. EMILY O. PADILLA
 Former DILG Undersecretary

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How can you get a hold of the Undersecretary?

 Atty. EMILY O. PADILLA

Undersecretary
Support Services Office (SSO)
 https://www.facebook.com/DARUndersecretaryEmilyPadilla/
 426-7484; 
454-5086; 
455-2343; 
928-6429
 usec.sso@dar.gov.ph
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Their office is also in Diliman.