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Post-war Interventions toward Agrarian Reform

Restoration and innovation after the war were engrossed on providing solutions to the problems of the previous the administration of President Roxas handed Republic Act No. 34 to establish a 70-30 allocation arrangement between tenant and landowner, correspondingly, which reduced the interest of landowners’ mortgages to tenants at six percent or less. The government also tried to reallocated hacienda lands, deteriorating prey to despairs of similar actions since no provision was given to small agrarians who were given lands. The Land Settlement Development Corporation (LASEDECO), under the period of President Elpidio Quirino, was established to accelerate and expand the resettlement program for farmers, this agency later on became the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Administration (NARRA) under the government of President Ramon Magsaysay. Magsaysay saw the significance of pursuing genuine land reform program and persuaded the Congress, majority of which were elite owners, to pass legislation to develop the land reform situation. NARRA improved the government’s relocation program and dissemination of agricultural lands to landless tenants and agrarians. It also intended to persuade members of the Huks, a movement of rebels in Central Luzon, to relocate in areas where they could resume their lives as peaceful citizen. A major pace in land reform arrived during the term of President Diosdado Macapagal over the Agricultural Land Reform Code (Republic Act No.3844)

This Code eliminated share occupancy in the Philippines and prescribed a program to transform tenant-farmers to boarders and later on owner-cultivators. It also aimed to allowed tenants from tenancy and emphasize owner-cultivatorship and agrarian individuality, equality, equity, productivity improvement, and public land dissemination.

Agrarian Reform Efforts under Marcos Martial Law in 1972 was declared by President Marcos, allowing him to fundamentally wipe out the landlord-dominated Congress. Over his “technocrats” he was able to develop executive power to start a “fundamental restructuring” of government, with its exertions in solving the deep structural problems of the country.

Many other techniques were engaged by the elite to discover a way to uphold their power and power, which were deteriorated by the exploitation of Marcos and his associates who were also involve in the agricultural area.

CARPER and the Further of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines “The new deadline of CARP terminated in 2008, leaving 1.2 million agrarian beneficiaries and 1.6 million hectares of agricultural land to be disseminated to farmers. In 2009, Republic Act No. 9700 was signed by President Arroyo or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPER), the amendatory law that extended the deadline to five more years. Section 30 of the law also mandates that any case and/or continuing including the implementation of provisions of CARP, as amended, which may

endure pending on 30 June 2014 shall be allowed to proceed to its finality and executed even beyond such date.” From 2009 to 2014, CARPER has disseminated a total of 1 million hectares of property to 900,000 agrarian beneficiaries. After 27 years of land reform and two Aquino admirations, 500,000 hectares of properties stay undistributed. The DAR and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) are the government agencies mandated to fulfill CARP and CARPER, however even the joint effort and resources of the two agencies have shown incapable of fully accomplishing the aim of agrarian reform in the Philippines. The same problems have afflicted its implementation: the influential landed elite and the indecisive bureaucracy of the Philippine government. Until these two challenges are conquered, genuine agrarian reform in the Philippines remains but a dream to Filipino Farmers who have been fighting for their right to landownership for eras....