Law Enacted Year Award Ceiling Retention Limits Coverage Scheme Salient Feature

Act No.4054 (Rice 1935 Farms and large Share Tenancy 50-50 sharing of the crop interest rate ceiling of 10%
Share Tenancy Act) estate per crop year and safeguard against the arbitrary
dismissal of tenants by landlords. Contracts were
good only for one year
Commonwealth Act 1938 Farms and large Bona fide occupants were entitled to lease the lands
No. 278 estates for 25 years with an option to buy thru National Land
Settlement Administration (NLSA)
Sugarcane Tenanted Sugar Share Tenancy The computation of the tenants share is based on the
Tenancy Contracts lands receipt issued by the landowners of the number of
Act No. 4113 tons milled. Landowners have the responsibility to the
tenant to inform them about the harvest.
Republic Act No. Tenanted Rice Share Tenancy Established the 70-30 sharing arrangements and
34 1946 Land regulating share-tenancy contracts.
The 70% of the harvest will go to the person who
shouldered the expenses for planting, harvesting and
for the work animals. With this, it reduced the interest
of landowners loans to tenants at not more than 6%.
Executive Order 1950 Replaced the National Land Settlement Administration
No. 355 (NLSA) with the Land Settlement Development
Corporation (LASEDECO) which took over the
responsibilities of the Agricultural Machinery
Equipment Corporation and the Rice and Corn
Production Administration.
Republic Act No. 1953 Abolished the LASEDECO and created in its place the
1160 (NARRA National Resettlement and Rehabilitation
LAW) Administration (NARRA).
To Hasten free distribution of agricultural lands of the
public domain to landless tenants and farm workers.
Particularly aimed at the peasant base of HUK
 movement (Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon
HUKBALAHAP).

Republic Act No. 1954 Leasehold Regulated all forms and aspect of tenure relations,
1199 Tenancy and except civil lease.
Share Tenancy
Gave share tenants the right to shift to leasehold
where they pay landowners a fixed rentals instead of a
variable share.

Provided security of tenure to tenants.

Allowed the purchase or expropriation of private lands
to subdivided and resold to tenants at a cost.

Land Reform Act 1955 300 hectares for individually- Private and Public Share Tenancy Sought to:
Republic Act No. owned estates; Agricultural land. 1. Reduce large landholdings and consolidate
1400 600 hectares for corporate- smaller uneconomic landholdings into plots of
owned estates adequate sizes;
2. Resettle Tenants in areas where land was
abundant
3. Provide Adequate credit facilities for small
landholders
4. Reduce rental and interest rates in order to
provide security for those who would remain
tenants
5. Secure land titles for small holders
6. Reform the property tax structure.
Republic Act No. August 75 hectares Rice and Corn Plantation Crops Leasehold - Aimed to make the farmers owners off the
3844 8, 1963 lands System land they till
- It lowered the retention limit from 300 to 75
hectares
- Abolished share tenancy and instituted the
leasehold system
- Institutionalized a judicial system of agrarian
cases
- Establish owner-cultivatorship and the
economic family-sized farm as the basis of
Philippine agriculture and as a consequence,
divert landlord capital in agriculture to
industrial development
- Created the Land Authority headed the
Governor for its implementation.

Presidential October 5 hectares for 7 hectares Tenanted Rice All other Share Restricted land reform scope to tenanted rice and corn
Decree No. 27 21, non-irrigated and Corn Lands Agricultural land Tenancy; lands and set the retention limit at 7 hectares.
1972 family-sized Operation
farms Land Transfer
3 hectares for
irrigated family-
sized farms

Executive Order July 16, Tenanted Rice Declared full landownership to qualified beneficiaries
No. 228 2987 and Corn Lands covered by P.D. No. 27, determining the value of
remaining unvalued rice and corn lands and providing
for the manner of payment by the farmer beneficiaries
and mode of compensation to the landowner.
Executive Order Tenanted Rice Providing for the mechanisms for the implementation
No. 229 and Corn Lands of CARP, creating Presidential Agrarian Reform
July 22, Council (PARC) as highest policy-making body that
1987 formulates all policies, rules and regulations
necessary to implement each component of CARP
with the President as its Chairman.
Republic Act No. June 3 hectares to 5 hectares All public and Compulsory Instituted a comprehensive agrarian reform program
6657 15, farmer- private Acquisition to promote social justice and industrialization
1988 beneficiaries; agricultural lands Voluntary Offer providing the mechanism for its implementation and
3 hectares to provided in the to Sell for other purposes. This law is still the one being
preferred Constitution Voluntary Land implemented at present.
beneficiaries regardless of the Transfer
tenurial
arrangement and
commodity
produced
including other
lands of public
domains suitable
to agriculture in
accordance with
law
Republic Act No. 1998 3 hectares to 5 hectares All public and Compulsory Many provisions of CARL were amended by
9700 farmer- private Acquisition CARPER. Most significant were the provisions on the
beneficiaries; agricultural lands award of land to the beneficiaries and the schedule of
3 hectares to as provided in land acquisition and distribution. New provisions were
preferred Proclamation No. also introduced such as provisions on gender, and the
beneficiaries 131 and creation of Joint Congressional Oversight Committee
Executive Order on Agrarian Reform (COCAR). Moreover, a number of
No. 229, including relevant Supreme Court decisions became legislated
other lands of the law under CARPER. These decisions pertain to the
public domain indefeasibility of titles given under agrarian reform and
suitable for the exclusive jurisdiction of DAR over the criminal
agriculture: aspect of agrarian dispute cases.
Provided, That
landholdings of
landowners with a
total area of five
(5) hectares and
below shall not be
covered for
acquisition and
distribution to
qualified
beneficiaries.