Java, Tricia Rose M.
Create a venn diagram to illustrate the similarities between agrarian situation in the Philippines then during Rizal’s time and now.
Agrarian Situation in the Philippines
During Rizal’s Time
 The land laws have invariably
contained provisions that enabled
powerful landowners to circumvent
the law, or even use the law to
sustain and further strengthen their
positions in power.
 Land was unequally distributed
before the Spaniards came.
 Inquilinato system was put into
place, wherein one who rented the
land for fixed annual amount the
inquilino was expected to give
personal service to the landlords. If
he/she will failed to do so, he or she
would expelled from the land they
rented.
 Spanish Friars can able to acquire
lands through whatever means
available to them, since the land
were donated for them in exchange
for their spiritual favors.
 Enforced Labor and Heavy taxes
 The Dominican Order continually
increased of unreasonable rentals,
land arbitrary grabbing and
confiscation.
Agrarian Situation in the
Philippines NOW
SIMILARITIES  Government now, provide land
for farmer beneficiaries
 Haciendero are still practicing  Equal distribution of land to the
the inquilino system, wherein farmers or cultivators.
they allow individuals or what
 Security of tenure and fair
they called inquilino to lease
system of rental payments.
hold the land, then the inquilino
will entered into sharecropping  Improved methods of cultivation
arrangement to a kasama’s to through improving the rural
share lease the land for institutions serving the farmers
cultivating agricultural crops. such as adequate credit and
 Haciendero are hiring own agricultural investment.
tenants or employing overseers  Progressive compensation for
and peasants as well to manage
land owners
and cultivate their land.
 Landowners are paying taxes,  Implementation of just labor
However, it is now based on the relations for farmers.
land ownership.
 Lands were classified to various
classes in order to determine the
lease amount.
 Farmers are still payed below
subsistence wages.