Support Services

 Function of Support
Services Office
• Irrigation facilities, especially second
crop or dry season irrigation facilities;
• Government subsidies for the use of
irrigation facilities;
• Infrastructure development and public works
projects in areas and settlements that come under
agrarian reform, and for this purpose, the
preparation of the physical development plan of
such settlements providing suitable barangay
sites, potable water and power resources,
irrigation system, seeds and seedling banks, post-
harvest facilities, and other facilities for a sound
agricultural development plans;
• Price support and guarantee for all
agricultural produce;
• Extending to small landowners, farmers
and farmer’s or organizations the necessary
credit, like concessional and collateral-free
loans, for agro-industrialization based on
social collateral like the guarantees of
farmers organizations;
• Promotion, development and
extension of financial assistance to
small and medium-scale industries in
agrarian reform areas.
• Assignment of a sufficient number of
agricultural extension workers to
farmer’s organization;
• Undertake development and dissemination
of information on agrarian reform plants
and crops best suited for cultivation and
marketing, and low-cost and ecologically
sound form inputs and technologies to
minimize reliance on expensive and
imported agricultural inputs;
• Development of cooperative
management skills through intensive
training;
• Assistance in the identification of ready
markets for agricultural produce or
products and training in other various
aspects of marketing;
• Administration, operation, management
and funding of support services
programs and projects including pilot
projects and models related to agrarian
reform as developed by the DAR
(Sec. 35, as amended by R.A 7905)
 Support Services
to the
Beneficiaries
• The PARC ensures that support
services to farmer beneficiaries
are provided such as:
1. Land surveys and titling;
2. Liberalized terms and credit facilities and
production loans;
3. Extension services by way of planting,
cropping, production and post- harvest
technology transfer, as well as marketing
and management assistance and support
to cooperatives and farmers’
organizations;
4. Infrastructure such as access trails,
mini-dams, public utilities,
marketing and storage facilities;
5. research, production and use of
organic fertilizers and other local
substances necessary to farming
and cultivation.
• The PARC is mandated to formulate
policies to ensure that support services
to farmer-beneficiaries shall be
provided at all stages of land reform.
• Misuse or diversion of the financial and
support provided above shall result in
sanctions against the beneficiary unit
thereof, including the forfeiture of the land
transferred to him or lesser sanctions as
may be provided by the PARC without
prejudice to criminal prosecution
Support Services
to the
Landowners
1. The PARC, with the assistance of such
other government agencies and
instrumentalities as it may direct,
provides land owners affected by the
CARP and prior agrarian reform
programs with the following services:
a. Investment information, financial and
counseling assistance;
b. Facilities programs and schemes for the
convention or exchange bonds issued for
payment of lands acquired with stocks
and bonds issued by the Nat'l
government, the Central Bank and other
government institutions and
instrumentalities.
c. Marketing of LBP bonds, as well as
promoting the marketability of said
bonds in traditional and non-traditional
financial markets and stock exchanges;
d. Other services designed to utilize
productively the proceeds of the sale of
such lands for rural industrialization
2. A landowner who invest in rural-based
industries shall be entitled to the incentives
granted to a registered enterprise engaged in
a pioneer or preferred area of investment as
provided for in the Omnibus Investments
Code 1987, or to such other incentives as the
PARC, the LBP, or other gov’t financial
institutions may provide.
3. The LBP shall redeem a landowner’s LBP
bonds at face value, provided that the
proceeds thereof shall be invested in a BOI-
registered company or in any agri-business or
agro-industrial enterprise in the region
where the landowner has previously made
investments, to the extent of 30% of the face
value of said LBP bonds subject to guidelines
issued by the LBP. (SEC.38)
Integrated Approach
To
Agrarian Reform
• To ensure the attainment of the
objectives of Agrarian Reform as
embodied in the CARL of 1988, the
program has been designed whereby
the beneficiaries are simultaneously
provided with the necessary support
facilities, institutions, and services.
The Integrated program
compromises
5 Major Components:
1. Land Tenure Improvement
This is aimed at making every tenet-
tiller own the land he tills. This aspect
covers land valuation and land tilling.
2. Institutional Development
This involves the development of the
appropriate rural-based institutions that
would eventually release the tillers from
pernicious institutional restraints and
practices, especially in the aspect of farm
financing, marketing, and procurement of
agricultural inputs .
This includes the following activities:
 Barrio
 Associations
 Area marketing cooperatives
 Farmers’ cooperative banks
3. Agricultural Development
• This is aimed at increasing the per
hectare yield of the emancipate
tenants thereby improving their
standard of living.
Includes are the following activities:
 Cooperative farming
 Compact farming
 Land consolidation
 Soil analysis
 Crop production
 Livestock and poultry
 Fish production, nutrition and ;
 Food processing
a. Cooperative farming is a type of
farming that equitably distributes
productions factors ( such as land,
labors and material resources),
especially land, to its members.
b. Compact farming
involves the pooling of human and land
resources in continuous areas to
achieve higher efficiency and larger
economies of scale.
4. Physical Development
• This consists of providing the infrastructures
supportive of agrarian reform, such as
irrigation systems, and farm-to-market
roads, ports, bridges, school buildings,
health centers and other social
infrastructures, including rural electrification.
5.Development of Agrarian Reform
Communities.
• the joint effort exerted by DAR in
coordination with other CARP
implementing agencies is manifested
particularly in Agrarian Reform
Communities (ARCs)
• The ARC development strategy is an integrated
area-focused approach wherein DAR’s twin
operations of land tenure improvement and
effective delivery of support services are
focused in a poor barangay or a cluster of
poor barangays to increase farm production,
improve household income and promote
sustainable development.
• It is in ARCs where the program will
showcase that agrarian reform works
and that agrarian reform as a holistic
development effort leads to improve
quality of life, people empowerment and
sustainable agro-industrial development.
6. Personnel Training and Clientele
Development .
• The continuing education program for
agrarian reform is being carried out by the
Bureau of Agrarian Reform Information and
Education. It covers two instructional fields:
a) Personnel Training ; b) Clientele
Development.
a. The first is designed to provide the
personnel of the agencies of the gov’t
created to carry out the policy objectives
of the program with a working
knowledge of agrarian reform policies,
plans, and programs and a broad training
implementation methodologies.
b. The second, which involves the non-
gov’t sector, includes several activities
such as community education and
information activities designed to bring
agrarian reform program to greater
public awareness and acceptance;
Education of the farmers o acquaint them about the
program and guide them to the development of their
individual abilities and skills applicable to farm life
with emphasis on better land use, farm planning,
better use of credit, and livelihood, and orientation of
landowners to gain their cooperation and support in
the successful implementation of the program.
Through the IMAP of DAR, farmers are provided with
accurate information and referrals.
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