Comprehensive Agrarian

Reform Law of 1998

(CARL)

Group 4
Gomez, Mischelle Paola
 refers to the distribution of public agricultural lands,
large estates, and regulation of the relationship
between the landowner and the farmer who works on
the land

 embraces all laws that govern and regulate the rights

and relationship over agricultural lands between
landowners, tenants, lessees, or agricultural workers
 Redistribution of lands, regardless of crops or fruits
produced to farmers and regular farmworkers who are
landless
 Includes alternative modes, such as:
 Labor administration
 Profit sharing
 Stock distribution
 Applies only to agricultural land devoted to agricultural
activities. It contemplates lands that are arable and
suitable for farming

 CARL is constitutional because this is a valid exercise of

police power
 Welfare of the landless farmer and farm workers will
receive the highest consideration to promote social
justice
 Promote industrialization and full employment
 State recognizes that there is not enough agricultural
land

Source: Ungos, Agrarian Law and Social Legislation, page 7.

 Agrarian Reform means the redistribution of lands,
regardless of crops or fruits produced to farmers and
regular farmworkers who are landless, irrespective of
tenurial arrangement, to include the totality of
factors and support services and all other
arrangements alternative to the physical
redistribution of lands, such as production or profit-
sharing, labour administration, and the distribution
of shares of stocks, which will allow beneficiaries to
receive a just share of the fruits of the lands they
work.
“Lands devoted to raising of livestock, poultry and swine
are classified as industrial, not agricultural, hence,
exempt from the agrarian reform program”

Source: Luz Farms v. Secretary of Agrarian Reform, 192 SCRA 51

Lands covered by the Lands not covered by the
Agrarian Reform Law Agrarian Reform
General rule:
1. Private lands with a total
area of five (5) hectares and
1. All public and private below;
agricultural lands; and
2. Other lands of the public 2. Lands actually, directly, and
domain suitable for exclusively used for parks,
wildlife, forest reserves,
agriculture reforestation, fish
sanctuaries and breeding
grounds, watersheds and
Exemption: unless mangroves;
otherwise provided
Lands covered by the Lands not covered by the
Agrarian Reform Law Agrarian Reform
General rule: 3. Lands actually, directly,
and exclusively used and
found to be necessary for:
1. All public and private  National defense
agricultural lands; and  Schools and campuses
2. Other lands of the public  Experimental farm
domain suitable for stations operated for
educational purposes
agriculture  Seeds and seedling
research and pilot
production center
Exemption: unless  Church sites and convents
otherwise provided appurtenant thereto
 Lands covered by the Lands not covered by the
Agrarian Reform Law Agrarian Reform
 Mosque sites and Islamic
General rule: centers appurtenant thereto;
 Communal burial grounds
1. All public and private and cemeteries;
agricultural lands; and  Penal colonies and penal
farms actually worked by the
2. Other lands of the public inmates;
domain suitable for  Research and quarantine
agriculture centers; and
 All lands with eighteen
degrees slope and over, except
Exemption: unless those already developed.
otherwise provided
 The distribution of all lands covered by this Act shall
be implemented immediately and completed within
ten years from effectivity date

 CARL was enacted on 10 June 1988

 R.A. 9700 extended the implementation of CARL,

particularly, the acquisition and distribution of
agricultural lands, to June 30, 2014
Process of Acquisition and Distribution Scheme,
according to order:

1. Lands with an area of more than fifty (50) hectares,

to be completed by June 30, 2012, specifically:

a. Those which have already been subjected to a Notice of

Coverage on or before December 10, 2008;
b. Rice and corn lands; and
c. Idle or abandoned lands
 Idle land or abandoned land

 Refers to any agricultural land not cultivated, tilled or

developed to produce any crop nor devoted to any specific
economic purpose continuously for a period of three (3) years
immediately prior receipt of notice of acquisition by the
government as provided under this Act

 No included those lands that became permanently or

regularly devoted to non agricultural purpose

 Also lands that became unproductive due to force majeure

d. Private lands voluntarily offered by the owners for
agrarian reform;

e. Lands foreclosed by the government financial

institutions;

f. Lands acquired by the Presidential Commission on

Good Governance (PCGG);
2. Lands with an area of twenty- four (24) hectares up to fifty (50) hectares,
to be contemplated by June 30, 2013, specifically:

a. All alienable and disposable public agricultural lands;

a. All arable public agricultural lands under agro-forest, pasture and

agricultural leases already cultivated and planted to crops in accordance
with Section 6, Article XIII of the Constitution;

a. All public agricultural lands which are to be opened for new

development and resettlement;

a. All private agricultural lands which have already been subjected to a

Notice of Coverage issued on or before December 10, 2008; and,

a. All remaining private agricultural lands regardless as to whether they

have been subjected to notices of coverage.
3. Lands with an area of more than ten (10) hectares up
to twenty-four (24) hectares, to be completed by June
30, 2013; and

4. Lands from the retention limit up to ten (10)

hectares, to be completed by June 30, 2014.