Law Enacted Year Award Ceiling Retention Limit Coverage Lands Exempted Scheme Salient Feature

from coverage
Act No.4054 (Rice 1935 Farms and large Share Tenancy - 50-50 sharing of the crop interest rate ceiling of
Share Tenancy Act) estate 10% 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
No. 278 estates lands for 25 years with an option to buy thru
National Land Settlement Administration (NLSA)
Sugarcane Tenancy Tenanted Sugar Share Tenancy - The computation of the tenants share is based on
Contracts Act No. lands the receipt issued by the landowners of the
4113 number of tons milled. Landowners have the
responsibility to the tenant to inform them about
the harvest.
Republic Act No. 34 Tenanted Rice Share Tenancy - Established the 70-30 sharing arrangements and
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 No. 1950 - Replaced the National Land Settlement
355 Administration (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
1160 (NARRA LAW) the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation
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 Tenancy - Regulated all forms and aspect of tenure relations,
1199 and Share Tenancy except civil lease.

- 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 - Reduce large landholdings and consolidate
Republic Act No. owned estates; Agricultural land. smaller uneconomic landholdings into plots of
1400 600 hectares for corporate- adequate sizes;
owned estates - Resettle Tenants in areas where land was
abundant
- Provide Adequate credit facilities for small
landholders
- Reduce rental and interest rates in order to
provide security for those who would remain
tenants
- Secure land titles for small holders
- 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 land
3844 8, 1963 lands System 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 Decree October 5 hectares for 7 hectares Tenanted Rice and All other Share Tenancy; - Restricted land reform scope to tenanted rice and
No. 27 21, 1972 non-irrigated Corn Lands Agricultural land Operation Land corn lands and set the retention limit at 7
family-sized Transfer hectares.
farms
3 hectares for
irrigated family-
sized farms

Executive Order No. July 16, Tenanted Rice and - Declared full landownership to qualified
228 2987 Corn Lands beneficiaries 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 No. Tenanted Rice and - Providing for the mechanisms for the
229 Corn Lands implementation of CARP, creating Presidential
July 22, Agrarian Reform Council (PARC) as highest
1987 policy-making body that formulates all policies,
rules and regulations necessary to implement
each component of CARP with the President as
its Chairman.
Republic Act No. June 15, 3 hectares to 5 hectares All alienable and mineral, forest Compulsory - Instituted a comprehensive agrarian reform
6657 1988 farmer- disposable lands of residential, Acquisition program to promote social justice and
beneficiaries; the public domain commercial or industrialization providing the mechanism for its
3 hectares to devoted to or industrial lands; Voluntary Offer implementation and for other purposes.
preferred suitable for classified and to Sell - Award Ceilings for Beneficiaries 3 hectares
beneficiaries agriculture; approved as NON- - Retention Area for Landowners 5 hectares
All lands of the AGRICLTURAL Voluntary Land - Transferability of Awarded Lands after 10 years
public domain in prior to June 15, Transfer - Principle of Affordability and Subsidy
excess of the 1988; - Valuation and Mode of Compensation to
specific limits as devoted to poultry, Agricultural Landowners
determined by swine or livestock- Leasehold
Congress in the raising as of June
preceding 15, 1988; Production and
paragraph; Fishponds and Profit Sharing
All other lands prawn farms;
owned by the Stock
Government Distribution Plan
devoted to or
suitable for
agriculture; and
All private lands
devoted to or
suitable for
agriculture
regardless of the
agricultural
products raised or
that can be raised
thereon

Republic Act No. 1998 3 hectares to 5 hectares All public and Compulsory - Instituted a comprehensive agrarian reform
9700 farmer- private agricultural Acquisition program to promote social justice and
beneficiaries; lands as provided in industrialization providing the mechanism for its
3 hectares to Proclamation No. implementation and for other purposes.
preferred 131 and Executive - Award Ceilings for Beneficiaries 3 hectares
beneficiaries Order No. 229, - Retention Area for Landowners 5 hectares
including other - Transferability of Awarded Lands after 10 years
lands of the public - Principle of Affordability and Subsidy
domain suitable for - Valuation and Mode of Compensation to
agriculture: Landowners
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.