AGRARIAN REFORM

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Define Reform; land reform; agrarian reform; agrarian law

Latin word and meaning of agrarian
What is agrarian structure?
What is land tenure structure? What is its classification?
What are the three shifts of RA 3844?
What is production structure?
What is structure for supporting services?
Cite constitutional mandates on agrarian reform.
What is encomienda?
Cite the different land reform measures

SECTION 7
24. What are the order of the scheme for the final acquisition and
distribution of all agricultural lands?
SECTION 8
25. Does lands possessed by multinational corp are covered by
CARP?
SECTION 9
26. Define ancestral lands
27. Does ancestral land was covered by CARP?
Section 10

COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM

PROGRAM (R.A 6657)
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What are the other alternative modes of CARP? Why?

When does CARP apply?
Define agricultural land
Is CARP unconstitutional? Why?
What is the primary objective of Agrarian Reform?
Define economic family size farm
Define the ff:
a. Agricultural activity
b. Idle or abandoned land
c. Farmers
d. Farmworker
e. Regular farmworker
f. Seasonal farmworker
g. Cooperatives
h. Rural women
8. Is raising of livestock, poultry or fish included in agriculture?
9. What are the lands covered by CARP
10. What are the lands not covered by CARP
SECTION 6
11. Does a land owner have a retention rights?
12. Can a landowner who has already exercised his retention rights
under PD 27 be entitled to the retention right under CARP
13. Can spouses retain 5 hectares each under the agrarian reform
law?
14. Who has the right to choose the retention area?
15. Can a landowner exercise his right to retention over the land
which has already been covered by an Emancipation Patent or
Cert of Land Ownership Award?
16. Suppose the retention area chosen by the land owner is
tenanted what happens to the tenant?
17. Effect if the tenant chooses to remain in the retained area
18. What are the privileges of being an agricultural lessee?
19. How leasehold relation is extinguished?
20. What is the effect if the tenant chooses to be a beneficiary?
21. Conditions for awarding to children the excess area of land
22. What are the exceptions to the awarding to children the excess
area of land?
23. Conditions for retention of land under Commonwealth Act 141

28. Who has jurisdiction to exempt a property from agrarian

reform coverage?
Section 11
29. Where does commercial lands devoted to?
30. Implementation of agrarian Reform law deffered on
commercial farms
31. What are the modes of acquisition of commercial farms?
32. What is the order of priority to be observed in the distribution
of commercial lands
33. What are the qualifications of commercial farm beneficiaries?
34. Who are disqualified to become commercial farm
beneficiaries?
35. What are the kinds of freedom given to beneficiaries?
36. What are the different types of agribusiness venture
agreements?
Section 12
37. Rules on fixing of rentals
Section 13
38. When does production sharing plan applicable?
Section 14
39. What are the information needed in a sworn statement in
assessors office? What is its purpose/
Section 16
40. Compulsory acquisition process
41. What are the two notices required for the validity of
implementation?
Section 17
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Concept of just compensation

What are the factors used in valuation lf lands?
Formulas
Procedure for determination of just compensation
What is the role of DARAB?

Section 18
47. What are the modes of payment of compensation?
48. What are the features of the Land Bank bonds?

Section 32
72. When does this provision applicable?
Section 35

Section 19
73. What is the support services provided for the landowners?
49. What are the documentary requirements for voluntary offers
for sale?
Section 22
50. Who are eligible to become agrarian reform beneficiaries?
51. Who are disqualified to become agrarian reform beneficiaries?
52. Order of distribution to children
Section 23
53. What if the landholding is more than enough to accommodate
the 3 hectare limit for each agricultural lessee or tenant? If not
economically feasible? If the seasonal workers equally met the
foregoing criteria?
54. What are the factors to be considered in determining the size
of land to be awarded?

Section 36- establishment of agrarian reform communities

Section 37
74. What are the support services to beneficiaries?
75. define rural women; their rights
Section 38
Section 39
76. What is the purpose of this provision?
Section 40
77. Special areas of concern principles
Section 41-50

Section 24
78. Compositions of different agrarian agency
55. What does the DAR issue a Certificate of Land Ownership
Award? (CLOA)
56. Cancellation of CLOAs
57. What are the grounds for cancellation of CLOA
58. When will the rights and obligations of beneficiaries
commence?
59. What are the obligations of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries?
Section 25
60. What is the rule for individual titles for every beneficiaries?
61. What are the conditions for the issuance of collective title?
Section 26
62. Schedule of payment
63. What is the basis of amortization?
64. What is the effect of failure to pay the amortizations?
Section 27
65. What is the exception to the gen. rule that the sale or transfer
of awarded lands is prohibited?
66. Define hereditary successions
67. What is the effect of sale or transfer to the gov. or the land
bank?
68. Can a beneficiary who has not fully paid the amortizations sell
the land to another?
69. Can the beneficiary lease the land to another person?
70. Can the beneficiary lease the land to the former landowner?

Section 51
79. What are the two fold jurisdiction of DAR
80. What is the quasi-jurisdiction of the DAR/DARAB? Its quasi
judicial powers?
81. What is the jurisdiction of PARAB
82. Functions of RARAD
83. Does DARAB have jurisdiction on the ff:
a. Matters on ownership
b. Retention or exemption issues
c. Over right of way
d. Identity and classify landholdings for agrarian reform
coverage
e. Matters pertaining to identification and selection of
beneficiaries
84. What is frivolous or dilatory appeal?
Section 52
85. What is the prerequisite to filing a complaint before DARAB
86. When does BARC necessary?
87. Is BARC needed in judicial determination of just compensation?
Section 56-59 Agrarian Courts (RTC)
Section 60
88. What is the remedy from adverse decision of the Special
Agrarian Court? CA?
89. 15 day period is non extendible

Section 29
Section 63 what are the sources of appropriation funds?
71. What are the modes of distributions of corporate farms?
Section 64 what is the role of land bank?

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Define conversion
Conversion vs reclassification
Effect of reclassification?
What is the scope of the DARs conversion authority?
Who can apply for conversion?
When is the proper time to file the app for conversion
Condition for filing of application for conversion
What are the obligations of the beneficiary if the app for
conversion is approved
98. What are the lands that cannot be subject to conversion?
99. What are the areas highly restricted from conversion?
100. What is the effect of failure to implement the approved
conversion plan
Section 66
101. What is the purpose of inventory
Section 71
102. When the bank or financial institution is deemed as the new
land owner
103. When the bank or financial institution is deemed as lien-holder
104. What are the rights and privileges of the bank or financial
institution as new land owner; as lien-holder?
105. Obligations of the bank or financial institution as the new land
owner; as lien-holder
Section 73
106. What are the criminal violations of CARP

Tenants Emancipation Law (PD 27)

107. Applicability
108. Transfer of lands to tenants
109. Size of land to be transferred to the tenant farmer
110. Stages of land transfer
111. Significance of cert of land transfer; emancipation patent
112. When EP may be cancelled
113. Who has jurisdiction over cancellation of Eps
114. Tenant-beneficiary cannot sell or transfer ownership of the land
115. Tenant farmer will pay the LB
116. Modes of paying just compensation to landowner
117. Retention right of the owner