THE COMPREHENSIVE
AGRARIAN REFORM
PROGRAM (CARP)
The legal basis for Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
(CARP) is the Republic Act No. 6657 otherwise known as
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) signed by
President Corazon C. Aquino on June 10, 1988. It is the
P R E V I O U S of public and private agricultural lands to farmers
redistribution
and farm workers who are landless, irrespective of the tenurial
arrangement.
OBJECTIVE OF THE CARP
In order to realize the government’s purpose of reforming
the rural and agriculture sector, the CARP defines its
objectives, which are enumerated as follows:
1. To acquire lands and distribute them equitably among
landless farmers in a span of ten years.
2. To accommodate all landless farmers as a tenant –
beneficiaries of the program
3. To deliver agriculture services other than land
distribution to all the beneficiaries of the program.
4. To provide farmers with legal representation and
create an adjudication body for agrarian-related cases ;
5. To assist and encourage landowners to shift their
capital to other investment
6. To establish the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council
(PARC) that would help implement the program.
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6657
This law was approved on June 10, 1998. An act instituting a
comprehensive agrarian reform program to promote social
justice and industrialization, providing the mechanism for its
implementation, and for other purposes.
Major Features:
Provides for the coverage of all agricultural lands
Recognizes all workers as beneficiaries of the program
on the land
Provides for the delivery of support services to program
beneficiaries
Provides arrangements that ensure the tenure security of
farmers and farmworkers
Creates an adjudication body that will resolve agrarian
disputes
LAND REDISTRIBUTION
Lands acquired by the CARP will be parceled out among farmers who are willing to cultivate them.
Who are the ARBs? They are called the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs).ARBs, together with the
landowners are the direct beneficiaries.
To be a qualified ARBs, the farmer must meet the prerequisites
mandated by R.A. 6657. Such qualifications are as follows:
a.) every lessee in agriculture regardless of tenants
b.) crops routine farm laborers employees of seasonal farms more farmworkers a farmer's association cooperatives
c.) Regular farmworkers
d.) Other farmworkers
e.) Actual tillers or occupants of public lands; and
f.) Others directly work on the land.
Distribution Limit. — No qualified beneficiary may own more than three (3) hectares of agricultural land.
LANDS COVERED BY CARP
1. Government owned lands devoted to or suitable for agriculture;
2. Alienable and disposable lands of the public domain devoted to or suitable for
agriculture;
3. Public domain lands in excess of the specific limits as determined by Congress; and
4. Private lands devoted to or suitable for agriculture regardless of the agricultural
products raised or that can be raised thereon.
LANDS NOT COVERED BY CARP
1. Those which is not suitable for agriculture, and those which are classified as mineral, forest,
residential, commercial, or industrial land;
2. Those which have been classified and approved as non-agricultural prior to 15 June 1988 as ruled
under Department of Justice Opinion No. 44, Series of 1990;
3. Those which are exempt pursuant to Sec. 10, RA 6657;
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4. Those the Agricultural
are devoted to poultry, swine, or livestock raising as of June 15, 1988, pursuant to
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the Supreme Court Industrial
ruling on Luz Farms vs. The Honorable Secretary of Agrarian Reform (G.R. No.
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86339, 4 December 1990); and
5. Those which are retained by the landowner (not covered insofar as land acquisition and
distribution but covered with respect to other provisions, particularly leasehold)
VOLUNTARY LAND TRANSFER
Landowners of agricultural lands subject to acquisition under this Act may enter into a voluntary
arrangement for the direct transfer of their lands to qualified beneficiaries subject to the following
guidelines:
(a) All notices for voluntary land transfer must be submitted to the DAR within the first year of the
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implementation of the Agricultural
CARP.
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(b) Industrial
The terms and conditions of such transfer shall not be less favorable to the transferee than those of
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the government's standing offer to purchase from the landowner and to resell to the beneficiaries if
such offers have been made and are fully known to both parties.
(c) The voluntary agreement shall include sanctions for non-compliance by either party and shall be
duly recorded and its implementation monitored by the DAR.
COMPONENTS OF
CARP
Lead Implementor: Department of
Agrarian Reform [DAR]
Land Tenure Improvement (LTI)
Agrarian Justice Delivery (AJD)
Program Beneficiaries Development
(PBD)
Agrarian structure
Land Tenure Structure
Production Structure
Structure of Support Services
Philippine Agrarian Structure
Agrarian Structure
AIMS
Equity
IT PROVIDES THE AGRARIAN REFORM BENEFICIARIES
(ARBS) THE ABILITY TO DIRECTLY PARTICIPATE IN
NATION BUILDING THROUGH EQUAL LAND OWNERSHIP
STRUCTURE
Capability
IT ALLOWS THE ARBS TO MANAGE REFORMED LANDS
PRODUCTIVELY BY GIVING THEM THE SUPPORT
SERVICES THAT THEY NEED
Sustainability
IT INCORPORATES THE ECOSYSTEM AND STAKEHOLDER
APPROACHES TO LAND USE AND MANAGEMENT.
TO PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE
TO MOVE THE NATION TOWARDS SOUND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
AND INDUSTRIALIZATION
TO ESTABLISH ECONOMIC-SIZED FARMS AS THE BASIS OF
PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE
HISTORY OF AGRARIAN REFORM
Agrarian Reform on the different
Eras of the Philippines
PRE-COLONIAL TIMES (BEFORE 16TH CENTURY)
THE LAND WAS COMMONLY OWNED BY THE COMMUNITY KNOWN
AS BARANGAY. THIS IS A SMALL UNIT OF GOVERNMENT
CONSISTING OF 30- 100 FAMILIES ADMINISTERED BY THE CHIEFS.
EVERYONE IN THE BARANGAY REGARDLESS OF STATUS HAD
ACCESS TO THE LAND AND MUTUALLY SHARES RESOURCES AND
THE FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR. THEY BELIEVED AND PRACTICED
THE CONCEPT OF “STEWARDSHIP” WHERE THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE IS IMPORTANT.
SPANISH ERA (1521-1896)
THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT OF THIS PERIOD INTRODUCED
PUEBLO AGRICULTURE, A SYSTEM WHEREIN NATIVE RURAL
COMMUNITIES WERE ORGANIZED INTO PUEBLOS AND EACH
CHRISTIANIZED NATIVE FAMILY IS GIVEN FOUR TO FIVE
HECTARES OF LAND TO CULTIVATE. THE PUEBLO AGRICULTURE
PRACTICED NO SHARECROPPER CLASS OR LANDLESS CLASS.
AMERICAN ERA (1898-1935)
REALIZING THAT BEING LANDLESS WAS THE MAIN CAUSE OF
SOCIAL UNREST AND REVOLT AT THAT TIME, THE AMERICANS
SOUGHT TO PUT AN END TO THE MISERABLE CONDITIONS OF THE
TENANT TILLERS AND SMALL FARMERS BY PASSING SEVERAL
LAND POLICIES TO WIDEN THE BASE OF SMALL LANDHOLDINGS
AND DISTRIBUTE LAND OWNERSHIP AMONG THE GREATER
NUMBER OF FILIPINO TENANTS AND FARMERS.
JAPANESE ERA
• DURING THIS OCCUPATION, PEASANTS AND WORKERS
ORGANIZED THE HUKBALAHAP (HUKBONG BAYAN LABAN SA MGA
HAPON) ON MARCH 29, 1942, AS AN ANTI-JAPANESE GROUP. THEY
TOOK OVER VAST TRACTS OF LAND AND GAVE THE LAND AND
HARVEST TO THE PEOPLE.
Thank You
CARP 3
BERAME, MARY DIANNE
GALANG, ALLYSSA
MIRANDA, CRISTINE KATE
NERI, CRISCHELLE
PUMIHIC, JEFRIL
RESUELLO, KYLA
