RA No.

3844 PD 27 EO 228 EO 229 Proclamation RA 6657 RA No 9700

No. 131
Title An Act To Decreeing the Declaring Full Providing the Instituting a An Act An Act
Ordain the Emancipation Land Mechanisms for Comprehensive Instituting a Strengthening
Agricultural of Tenants Ownership TO the Agrarian Comprehensive the
Land Reform from the Qualified Implementation Reform Agrarian Reform Comprehensive
Code and To Bondage of the Farmer of the Program Program to Agrarian
Institute Land Soil, Beneficiaries Comprehensive Promote Social Reform
Reforms in the Transferring to Covered by PD Agrarian Justice and Program
Philippines, them the No 27; Reform Industrialization, (CARP),
Including the Ownership of Determining Program Providing the Extending the
Abolition of the the Land They the Value of Mechanism for Acquisition and
Tenancy and Till and Remained Its Distribution of
the Chaneling of Providing the Unvalued Rice Implementation, All Agricultural
Capital into Instruments and Corn Lands and for Other Lands,
Industry, and Subject to PD Purposes Instituting
Provide for the Mechanisms No 27; and necessary
necessary Therefor Providing for Reforms,
Implementing the Manner of Amending for
Agencies, Payment by the the Purpose
Appropriate Farmer Certain
Funds Therefor Beneficiary and Provisions of
and For Other Mode of Republic Act
Purposes Compensation No. 6657,
(Agricultural to the otherwise
Land Reform Landowner known as The
Code) Comprehensive
Agrarian
Reform Law of
1988, as
amended, and
Appropriating
Funds Therefor
Effectivity 8 August 1963 21 October 17 July 1987 22 July 1987 22 July 1987 10 June 1988 7 August 2009
Date 1972
Objective To create a
system of
owner-
cultivatorship
and economic
family-size farm
as basis of
Philippine
agriculture
Prominent 1. Abolition of
Features Agricultural
Share
Tenancy
and
Replacing It
With
Agricultural
Leasehold
System.
2. Share
Tenancy
System to
Agricultural
Leasehold
System
3. BILL OF
RIGHTS for
agricultural
workers
4. Department
of Agrarian
Reform
(DAR)
 serves as
machinery
for
acquisition
and
distribution
of
agricultural
land
5. Land Bank
as the
financial
arm of the
agrarian
reform
program.