READINGS IN THE PHILIPPINE HISTORY - PREFINALS

Policies on agrarian reform

Agrarian reform

simply means changing the way land is owned and used so that farmers and landless people get fair access to land and can improve their lives.

Pueblo agriculture

Under this system, families are given land to cultivate but they do not own it--the King of Spain does.

Repartamientos

when land is given to people in the spanish military

encomienda

encomenderos

comparas y vandalas

Filipinos will sell their products at a meager price, or surrender it to encomenderos, who resell these at a profit.

hacienda system

•An attempt to enter the CAPITALIST society

•New form of ownership.

•1860s- Spain mandated LAND REGISTRATION. It was unfairly implemented.

land titling system

became the primary reason of early revolts.

Philippine Organic Law of 1902

•A Private individual may own 16 hectares

•A Corporation may have 1,042 hectares

1042 hectares

amount of land a corporation may have under the philippine organic law of 1902

16 hectares

amount of land a private individual may have under the philippine organic law of 1902

torrens system

the government issues a land title that serves as absolute proof of ownership.

homestead program

The government gives qualified individuals or families a piece of public land. The person must live on the land and farm or improve it for a certain number of years.

Act No. 496 or land registration act

torrens system and homestead program enacted by the philippine commission'

national rice and corn corporation

NARICC

national land settlement administration

NLSA

pres. manuel roxas

under this president: republic act no. 34

republic act no. 34

•established the 70-30 sharing arrangement between tenant and landlord, respectively.

•reduce the interest of landowner’s loans to tenants at 6% or less.

pres. elpidio quirino

Land Settlement Development Corporation

THIS HAPPENED DURING HIS TERM

pres. ramon magsaysay

•Republic Act No. 1199 or the Agricultural Tenancy Act:
•Court of Agricultural Relaitons; 1955.
•The Agricultural Tenancy Commission:
•Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financing Administration
•Agricultural and Industrial Bank:

NARRA

republic act no. 1199 or the agricultural tenancy act

•was passed to govern the relationship between landholders and tenants

•protect tenurial rights of tenants

•enforced tenancy practices

during pres ramon magsaysay’s term

agricultural tenancy commission

•established to administer problems created by tenancy

during pres. ramon magsaysay’s term

Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financing Administration

to provide warehouse facilities and assist farmers in marketing their products.

Agricultural and Industrial Bank

established to offer more accessible terms in applying for homestead and other farmlands.

National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Administration

NARRA

NARRA

accellerated the government’s resettlement program and agri land distribution.

pres. diosdado macapagal

•Republic Act No. 3844 or the Agricultural Land Reform Code:

THIS HAPPENED DURING HIS TERM

Republic Act No. 3844 or the Agricultural Land Reform Code

•abolished share tenancy and prescribed a program to convert tenant-farmers to lessees and later on owner-cultivators

•Farmer Independence

•Equity, Productivity improvement

•Public land distribution

ferdinand marcos sr.

•Presidential Decree No. 27 or the Code of Agrarian Reform of the Philippines:
•Masagana ‘99

THIS HAPPENED DURING HIS TIME

Presidential Decree No. 27 or the Code of Agrarian Reform of the Philippines

•became the core of agrarian reform during the Marcos regime

•“Operation Land Transfer” on lands occupied by tenants of more than 7 hectares on rice and corn lands.

masagana ‘99

•Farmers were able to borrow from banks and purchase three-hectares plots of land and agri inputs.

pres. corazon aquino

•Presidential Proclamation No. 131 and EO No. 229:
•Republic Act No. 6657 or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL)
•Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP):

THIS HAPPENED DURING HIS TIME

presidential proclamation no. 131 and eo no. 229

•July 22, 1987

outlined corazon aquino’s land reform program

republic act no. 6657 or the comprehensice agrarian reform law

•1988

•introduced the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).

comprehensive agrarian reform program (carp)

•enabled the redistribution of agricultural lands to tenant-farmers from landowners with just compensation and retention of not more thant 5 hectares of land.

•Corporations however were allowed to divest in favor of their workers instead of turning over their land to the government.

pres. fidel ramos

•Republic Act No. 8532
carp was sped to meet the 10-year time frame

THIS HAPPENED DURING HIS TIME

republic act no. 9700 or the comprehensive agrarian reform program exrension wirh reforms 

extended carp’s deadline to 5 more years

pres gloria arroyo

•CARP’s new deadline expired in 2008, leaving 1.2 million farmer-beneficiaries and 1.6 million hectares hanging.
•Republic Act No. 9700 or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPER)

THIS HAPPENED DURING HIS TIME