Land Reform

For. Romualdo B. De Guzman, Jr.

MSA (Extension)

BATAAN PENINSULA STATE UNIVERSITY

Abucay CampusBrgy. Bangkal Abucay 2114 BataanPHILIPPINES

Telefax: (6347) 4811765Website: www.bpsc.edu.ph

E-mail: batpolstatecol@yahoo.com.ph

Land Tenure Structure

• Involves the questions of whether share tenancy or leasehold tenancy is adopted, or whether there must be limitation of land available for cultivation.

Production Structure and System of Services

• It involves matters like technical assistance in soil analysis, family planning, farm planning and management: agricultural credits; rural organizations; like cooperatives; infrastructure facilities including roads, irrigations, warehouse, school buildings, and evaluation of performance by farmers.

Basilio Estanislao,President DBP (now Chairman)

• Agrarian reform ( of which land reform is only a component)

• Is a broad program to improve not only the productivity but also the income levels of the agrarian sector to generate and expand employment, and reduce poverty in the countryside.

• An agrarian reform program, therefore, in the context of the Philippine condition, should contain several components.

Components of Agrarian Reform1. The tenurial or land reform component (the visible aspect

of which is the on-going transfer of land to the tenants.2. The infrastructure components (irrigation, flood control,

farm to-market roads);3. The institutional development component (cooperatives);4. The financial support or funding component;5. The agricultural development component (modern farm

methods, etc.);6. The small scale or cottage or backyard industrialization

component;7. The price structure component (since price of both inputs

& outputs somehow affect the profit component of rice production project, and therefore, the income of the farmers.

Two Possible Approaches to Tenancy Reform

1. The regulatory approach; and

2. The abolition approach.

Abolition Approach

• Aimed at immediate conversion of tenants into owners had definite advantages in that it could remove social tension and promote greater social equality by breaking the landlord-tenant nexus, while providing the best incentives for the maximization of agricultural production.

• Constitute a once-for-all operation, it was comparatively easier to enforce.

Regulatory Approach

• Continuing process, and consequently required much more elaborate machinery for implementation.

• Had a much more greater chance of being accepted and if effectively implemented, could provide the essential condition for agricultural development.

• Reduction of rentals would normally bring down the market value of tenanted lands, thus facilitating transfer of ownership at a later stage.

• The objectives should be transform tenancies into ownership as easy as feasible where political condition were not ripe for such transformation.

• This approach is adopted as transitional measure.

Communal Type of agriculture; Republic Act 6389 contemplates Moshave type of

communal Agriculture to a limited extentMoshave - Where the owners of land

constituting a village corporate in some spheres, living in a privately owned house.

Kibbutz System – which contemplates a collective village where all properties except personal effects are owned by the community and where all work shall be done for the community.

Republic Act 6389

• State that “notwithstanding any provision of existing laws, rules and regulations to the contrary, the Department of Agrarian Reform is hereby authorized to segregate any area of 3,000 hectares out of any of its reservations as demonstration farm or pilot project for the resettlement program of the Department in the Moshave type of communal agriculture”. (Sec35 RA 6389)

Land settlement as part of land reform.

• Could provide a model as well as a spearhead for changes in the agrarian structure, and should be planned as an integral part of any land reform program.

• Useful complement of land reform.• Provides means of relieving pressure on

already settled areas, thereby alleviating the problems of tenancy and the small size of holdings of those areas.

Land Reform and urbanization

• Increasing population

• Rural migration

• Urban employment

• Emphasis on light industry rather than heavy industry.

• LR geared to widening the employment opportunities in rural areas and thereby retarding rural immigration

The right in incomes of the rural poor would stimulate industrialization generally and

more particularly;1. Industries producing farming requisites;

2. Industries producing consumer goods for rural areas;

3. Agricultural processing industries;

4. Industries producing farming requisites.

Thank you for listening & good day!