Post-War Interventions

toward Agrarian Reform

Post-War Interventions toward
Agrarian Reform
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform

Rehabilitation and rebuilding after the

war were focused on providing solutions
to the problems of the past
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Republic Act No.34 by President Roxas
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Republic Act No.34 by President Roxas

Manuel Acuña Roxas

January 1, 1892 - April 15, 1948

a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as

the fifth president of the Philippines from 1946-
1948
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Republic Act No.34 by President Roxas

to establish a 70.30 sharing arrangement between

tenants and landlord, respectively, which reduces the
interest of landowner's loans to tenants at 6% or less
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Republic Act No.34 by President Roxas

The government also attempted to redistribute

hacienda lands falling prey to the woes similar
attempts since no one support was given to small
farmers who were given lands.
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Land Settlement Development Corporation
(LASEDECO) by President Elpidio Quirino
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Land Settlement Development Corporation
(LASEDECO) by President Elpidio Quirino

Elpidio Rivera Quirino

November 16, 1890 - February 29, 1956

a Filipino lawyer and politician who
served as the 6th president of the
Philippines from 1948 to 1953.
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Land Settlement Development Corporation
(LASEDECO) by President Elpidio Quirino

to accelerate and expand the resettlement program of

peasants.
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Land Settlement Development Corporation
(LASEDECO) by President Elpidio Quirino

to accelerate and expand the resettlement program of

peasants.

this agency later on become the National Resettlement

and Rehabilitation (NARRA) under the administration
of President Ramon Magsaysay.
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform

Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay Sr.

August 31, 1907 -March 17, 1957

was a Filipino statesman who served as

the seventh president of the Philippines,
from December 30, 1953, until his death
in an aircraft disaster on March 17, 1957
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Land Settlement Development Corporation
(LASEDECO) by President Elpidio Quirino

National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Administration

(NARRA)
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Republic Act No. 1199: Agricultural Tenancy Act
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Republic Act No. 1199: Agricultural Tenancy Act

to govern the relationship between landholders

and tenant farmers, protecting the tenurial
rights of tenants and enforced tenancy
practices.
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financial Administration
(ACCFA)
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financial Administration
(ACCFA)

to mainly provide warehouse facilities and assist

farmers in marketing their products.
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financial Administration
(ACCFA)

to mainly provide warehouse facilities and assist

farmers in marketing their products.

government lack funds and provide

inadequate support services for the
program.
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financial Administration
(ACCFA)

to mainly provide warehouse facilities and assist

farmers in marketing their products.

government lack funds and provide

inadequate support services for the
program.
The landed elite did not fully cooperate
and they criticized the program.
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform

A major stride land reform arrived during the term of

President Diosdado Macapagal through the Agricultural
Land Reform Code (Rep Act no. 3844)
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform

Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Sr.

September 28, 1910 April 21, 1997

was a Filipino lawyer, poet and politician

who served as the ninth president of the
Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965
Post-War Interventions toward Agrarian Reform
(1) To establish owner-cultivatorship and the economic family size farm as the basis of
Philippine agriculture and, as a consequence, divert landlord capital in agriculture to
Industrial development;
(2) To achieve a dignified existence for the small farmers free from pernicious
institutional restraints and practices;
(3) To create a truly viable social and economic structure in agriculture conducive
to greater productivity and higher farm Incomes;
(4) To apply all labor laws equally and without discrimination to both industrial
and agricultural wage earners;
(5) To provide a more vigorous and systematic land resettlement program and
public land distribution, and
(6) To make the small farmers more independent, self-reliant and responsible
citizens,and a source of genuine strength in our democratic society.
 Agrarian Reform
Efforts under Marcos
Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr.

September 11, 1917 - September 28, 1989

was a Filipino politician, lawyer, dictator,

and kleptocrat who was the 10th president
of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986.

He ruled under martial law from 1972

until 1981
Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos
President Marcos declaired Martial Law in 1972,
enabling him to essentially wipe out the landlord-
dominated Congress. Through his "tehchnocrats", he
eas able to expand executive power to start a
"fundamental restructuring" of government,
including it's effort in solving to deep structural
problems of the countryside. Presidental Decree
No.27 or the Code of Agrarian Reform of the
Philippines became the core agrariam reform during
Marcos regime.
Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos

Primary Source: Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21 1972

Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos

Primary Source: Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21 1972

This should apply to tenants farmers of private

agricultural lands primarily devoted to rice and corn
under the system of sharecrop or lease-tenancy ,
whether classified as landed estate or not:
Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos

Primary Source: Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21 1972

The tenant farmer, whether in land classified as landed

estate or not, shall be deemed owner of a portion
constituting a family-size farm of five (5) hectares if not
irrigated and three (3) hectares if irrigated;
Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos

Primary Source: Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21 1972

In all cases, the landowner may retain an area of not

more than seven (7)hectares if such landowner is
cultivating such area or will now cultivate it;
Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos

Primary Source: Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21 1972

For the purpose of determining the cost of the land to

be transferred to the tenant-farmer pursuant to this
Decree, the value of the land shall be equivalent to two
and one-half (2 1/2) times the average harvest of three
normal crop years immediately preceding the
promulgation of this Decree;
Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos

Primary Source: Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21 1972

The total cost of the land, including interest at the rate

of 6 per centum per annum, shall be paid by the tenant
in 15 years of fifteen 15 equal annual amortizations;
Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos

Primary Source: Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21 1972

The government shall guaranty such amortizations

with shares of stock in government-owned and
government-controlled corporations
Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos

Primary Source: Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21 1972

No title to the land owned by the tenant-farmers under

this Decree shall be actually issued to a tenant-farmer
unless and until the tenant-farmer has become a full-
fledged member of a duly recognized farmer's cooperative;
Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos

Primary Source: Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21 1972

Title to land acquired pursuant to this Decree or the

Land Reform Program of the Government shall not
be transferable except by hereditary succession or to
the Government in accordance with the provisions of
this Decree, the Code of Agrarian Reforms and other
existing laws and regulations;
Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos

Primary Source: Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21 1972

The Department of Agrarian Reform through its

Secretary is hereby empowered to promulgate
rules and regulations for the implementation of
this Decree.
Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos

Primary Source: Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21 1972

"Operation Land
Transfer"
occupied by tenants of more than seven hectares on rice
and corn lands commenced, and through legal compulsion
and an improved delivery of support services to small
farmers, Agrarian reform seemed to be finally achieved.