Agrarian Reform Policies.....................

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1. Agrarian
Reform policies

2. What is Ra 6657 or Carp-
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform program?
CARP or Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program is the redistribution
of public and private agricultural lands to farmers and farmworkers who
are landles irrespective of tenurial arrangement. CARI's vision is to have
an equitable land ownership with empowered agrarian reform
beneficiaries who can effectively manage their and social development
to have a better quality of life. (Department of Agrarian Reform, n.d
One of the major programs of CARP is Land Tenure Improvement, which
seeks to hasten distribution of lands to landless farmers. Similarly, the
Department offers Support Services to the bene of lands such as
infrastructure facilities, marketing assistance program, credit assistance
program, and technical support programs. Furthermore, the department
seeks to facilitate resolve cases and deliver Agrarian Justice.
(Department of Agrarian Reform, n.d

3. What is Ra 6657 or Carp-
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform program?
The legal basis for CARP is the Republic Act No. 6657 otherwise known
as Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) signed by President
Corazon C. Aquino on June 10, 1988. It is an act which aims to promote
social justice and industrialization, providing the mechanism for its
implementation, and for other purposes. (Department of Agrarian Reform,
n.d.)
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6657
(June 10, 1988)
AN ACT INSTITUTING A COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM
PROGRAM TO PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE AND INDUSTRIALIZATION,
PROVIDING THE MECHANISM FOR ITS IMPLEMENTATION, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES

4. CARP stands for the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, a
government initiative that aims to grant landless farmers and farmworkers
ownership of agricultural lands. It was signed into law by President
Corazon C. Aquino on June 10, 1988, and was scheduled to have been
completed in 1998. On the year of its deadline, Congress enacted a law
(Republic Act No. 8532) appropriating additional funds for the program
and extending the automatic appropriation of ill-gotten wealth recovered
by the Presidential Commission on Good Governance (PCGG) for CARP
until 2008.
What is CARP?What is
CARPER?

5. CARPER or Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program extension with
reforms, is the amendatory law that extends yet again the deadline of
distributing agricultural landsto farmers for five years.It also amends
other provisions stated in CARP. CARPER was assigned into lawon
August 7,2009. ("Department of Agrarian Reform".n.d)
Landless farmers, including agricultural lessees, tenants, as well as
regular Masonal and other fal beneficetur, The Department of Agrarian
Reform and screens putet be at least 15 yea and validates these
qualification (DA quality, you must be at least 15 years old, be a resident
of the barangay where the land holding is located, and own
2.Who are the beneficiaries of CARP?

6. An estimated 7.8 million hectares of land is covered by CARP.
("Department of Agrarian Reform," n.d.)
4.How much land is subject to land reform?
Many agencies are involved in the implementation of CARP. The
lead agencies are the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), and
the Department of Envirorutsent and Natural Resources (DENR).
They are in charge of the identification and distribution of covered
land, and is commonly referred to as CARPable land. ("Department
of Agrarian Reform, n.d.)
3. What are the government offices involved in the program?
As of December 31, 2013, the government has acquired and
distributed 6.9 million hectares of land, equivalent to 88% of the total
land subject to CARP. ("Department of Agrar Reform," n.d.)
5.How much land has been Acquired and distributed so far?

7. From July 2010 to December 2013, the administration has
distributed a total of 751,514 hectares, or 45% of the total
landholdings to be distributed to the farmer beneficiaries left under
this administration.
From this, DAR has distributed 412.782 hectares and DENR has
already distributed 338,732 hectares. ("Department of Agrarian
Reform," n.d
6. How much land was distributed to beneficiaries under this
administration?
7. How much land does the government still need to acquire for
distribution from 2014 to 2016?
DAR still needs to acquire 771,795 hectares, while the DENR still
needs to acquire 134,857 hectares a total of 906,652 hectares.
("Department of Agrarian Reform," n.d.)

8. 8. How will the government acquire the landholdings?
There are different modes of acquiring and distributing public and
private agricultural lands. For private lands under compulsory
acquisition, the DAR will issue Notices of Cove rage to the original
owners of the landholdings. Notices of Coverage will be issued to
most of the landholdings by June 30, 2014. ("Department of Agrarian
Reform,"
9.What is the notice of coverage?
A Notice of Coverage (NOC) is a letter of informing a land owner that
his/her land is covered by CARP,and a subject to acquisition and
distribution to beneficiaries.It likewise inform the landowner of his/her
rights under the law, including the right to retain 5 hectares.
(Department of Agrarian Reform."n.d)

9. 10.After the period of time allotted for CARPER by low is
passed (August 7, 2009 to June 30, 2014), how will the remaining
landholdings, which are subject to compulsory acquisition, be
distributed to the beneficiaries?
As long as Notices of Coverage are issued on or before June 30, 2014,
land distributes long as Notices shall continue until completion, according
to Section 30 of CARPER (R.A. No. 9700), Meaning, even after
CARPER's deadline, the law itself mandates the concerned agencies to
finish distributing lands to the beneficiaries up to the very lase hectare.
This assures to the farmers that the process for receiving their land will
continue (eg beneficiary identification, survey, generation, and
registration of land titles to beneficiaries). ("Department of Agrarian
Reform," n.d.)

10. DAR projects that it will be distributing 187,686 hectares in 2014;
198,631 hectares in 2015; and 385,478 hectares in 2016.
Of the remaining CARPable landholdings to be distributed,
551,275 hectares are considered workable, while 220,520
hectares are tagged as problematic. Solutions for problematic
landholdings will be worked out. ("Department of Agrarian
Reform," n.d.)
11. How does DAR intend to deal with the remaining landholdings
(771,795 hectares) to be distributed?

11. 12. What were the challenges encountered in the course of acquiring and
distributing private lands?
There were numerous problems in implementing the land reform program:
In some cases, technical descriptions in the land titles (which determine the
boundaries of the land) were found to be erroneous and had to be corrected.
Some titles were destroyed, and therefore, had to be reissued by undergoing
a court process, similar to filing a case. Potential beneficiaries argued among
themselves on who should or should not be qualified as beneficiaries; these
disputes had to be mediated or resolved by the government. In other cases,
landowners may petition that their lands be exempted or excluded from
CARP coverage, and some of these petitions have gone up to the Suprem
Court.
Smaller parcels of land (5 hectares to 10 hectares) were only processed in
the last year of implementation of CARPER (July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014).
Past efforts focused on bigger parcels of land, which involved more
paperwork to process. Now that efforts are focused on smaller but more
numerous cuts of land, there are more claim folders to process and
distribute. ("Department of Agrarian Reform," n.d.)