Law Enacted

Act No.4054 (Rice

Share Tenancy Act)

Year
1935

Commonwealth Act
No. 278

1938

Award Ceiling

Retention Limits

Coverage
Farms and large
estate

Farms and large

estates

Sugarcane
Tenancy Contracts
Act No. 4113

Tenanted
lands

Sugar

Republic Act No.

34

Tenanted
Land

Rice

Executive
No. 355

1946

Order

1950

Republic Act No.

1160
(NARRA
LAW)

1953

Scheme
Salient Feature
Share Tenancy 50-50 sharing of the crop interest rate ceiling of 10%
per crop year and safeguard against the arbitrary
dismissal of tenants by landlords. Contracts were
good only for one year
Bona fide occupants were entitled to lease the lands
for 25 years with an option to buy thru National Land
Settlement Administration (NLSA)
Share Tenancy The computation of the tenants share is based on the
receipt issued by the landowners of the number of
tons milled. Landowners have the responsibility to the
tenant to inform them about the harvest.
Share Tenancy Established the 70-30 sharing arrangements and
regulating share-tenancy contracts.
The 70% of the harvest will go to the person who
shouldered the expenses for planting, harvesting and
for the work animals. With this, it reduced the interest
of landowners loans to tenants at not more than 6%.
Replaced the National Land Settlement Administration
(NLSA) with the Land Settlement Development
Corporation (LASEDECO) which took over the
responsibilities of the Agricultural Machinery
Equipment Corporation and the Rice and Corn
Production Administration.
Abolished the LASEDECO and created in its place the
National
Resettlement
and
Rehabilitation
Administration (NARRA).
To Hasten free distribution of agricultural lands of the
public domain to landless tenants and farm workers.
Particularly aimed at the peasant base of HUK

movement (Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon

HUKBALAHAP).
Republic Act No.
1199

1954

Leasehold
Tenancy
and
Share Tenancy

Regulated all forms and aspect of tenure relations,

except civil lease.
Gave share tenants the right to shift to leasehold
where they pay landowners a fixed rentals instead of a
variable share.
Provided security of tenure to tenants.
Allowed the purchase or expropriation of private lands
to subdivided and resold to tenants at a cost.

Land Reform Act

Republic Act No.
1400

1955

300 hectares for individually- Private and Public

owned estates;
Agricultural land.
600 hectares for corporateowned estates

Share Tenancy Sought to:

1. Reduce large landholdings and consolidate
smaller uneconomic landholdings into plots of
adequate sizes;
2. Resettle Tenants in areas where land was
abundant
3. Provide Adequate credit facilities for small
landholders
4. Reduce rental and interest rates in order to
provide security for those who would remain
tenants
5. Secure land titles for small holders
6. Reform the property tax structure.

Republic Act No.

3844

August
8, 1963

75 hectares

Rice and Corn Plantation Crops

lands

Leasehold
System

Aimed to make the farmers owners off the

land they till
It lowered the retention limit from 300 to 75
hectares
Abolished share tenancy and instituted the
leasehold system
Institutionalized a judicial system of agrarian
cases
Establish owner-cultivatorship and the
economic family-sized farm as the basis of
Philippine agriculture and as a consequence,
divert landlord capital in agriculture to
industrial development
Created the Land Authority headed the
Governor for its implementation.

Presidential
Decree No. 27

October 5 hectares for 7 hectares

21,
non-irrigated
1972
family-sized
farms
3 hectares for
irrigated familysized farms

Tenanted
Rice All
other Share
and Corn Lands
Agricultural land
Tenancy;
Operation
Land Transfer

Restricted land reform scope to tenanted rice and corn

lands and set the retention limit at 7 hectares.

Executive
No. 228

Order

July 16,
2987

Tenanted
Rice
and Corn Lands

Executive

Order

Declared full landownership to qualified beneficiaries

covered by P.D. No. 27, determining the value of
remaining unvalued rice and corn lands and providing
for the manner of payment by the farmer beneficiaries
and mode of compensation to the landowner.
Providing for the mechanisms for the implementation

Tenanted

Rice

No. 229

and Corn Lands

July 22,
1987

Republic Act No.

6657

June
15,
1988

3 hectares to 5 hectares
farmerbeneficiaries;
3 hectares to
preferred
beneficiaries

Republic Act No.

9700

1998

3 hectares to 5 hectares
farmerbeneficiaries;
3 hectares to
preferred
beneficiaries

All public and

private
agricultural lands
provided in the
Constitution
regardless of the
tenurial
arrangement and
commodity
produced
including
other
lands of public
domains suitable
to agriculture in
accordance with
law
All public and
private
agricultural lands
as provided in
Proclamation No.
131 and
Executive Order
No. 229, including

of CARP, creating Presidential Agrarian Reform

Council (PARC) as highest policy-making body that
formulates all policies, rules and regulations
necessary to implement each component of CARP
with the President as its Chairman.
Compulsory
Instituted a comprehensive agrarian reform program
Acquisition
to promote social justice and industrialization
Voluntary Offer providing the mechanism for its implementation and
to Sell
for other purposes. This law is still the one being
Voluntary Land implemented at present.
Transfer

Compulsory
Acquisition

Many provisions of CARL were amended by

CARPER. Most significant were the provisions on the
award of land to the beneficiaries and the schedule of
land acquisition and distribution. New provisions were
also introduced such as provisions on gender, and the
creation of Joint Congressional Oversight Committee
on Agrarian Reform (COCAR). Moreover, a number of
relevant Supreme Court decisions became legislated

other lands of the

public domain
suitable for
agriculture:
Provided, That
landholdings of
landowners with a
total area of five
(5) hectares and
below shall not be
covered for
acquisition and
distribution to
qualified
beneficiaries.

law under CARPER. These decisions pertain to the

indefeasibility of titles given under agrarian reform and
the exclusive jurisdiction of DAR over the criminal
aspect of agrarian dispute cases.