Carp (Comprehensive Agrian Reform Program )
COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM LAW OF 1988
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6657
CHAPTER I - PRELIMINARY CHAPTER
•1 Title. - This Act shall be known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988.
•2. Declaration of Principles and Policies. - It is the policy of the State to pursue a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The welfare of the landless farmers and farm workers will receive the highest consideration to promote social justice and to move the nation towards sound rural development and industrialization, and the establishment of owner cultivator ship of economic-sized farms as the basis of Philippine agriculture.
•3.Definitions - For the purpose of this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise:
Agrarian Reform means the redistribution of lands, regardless of crops or fruits produced, to farmers and regular farm workers who are landless, irrespective of tenurial arrangement, to include the totality of factors and support services designed to lift the economic status of the beneficiaries and all other arrangements alternative to the physical redistribution of lands, such as production or profit-sharing, labor administration, and the distribution of shares of stock which will allow beneficiaries to receive a just share of the fruits of the lands they work.
CHAPTER II - COVERAGE
•4. Scope. - The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988 shall cover, regardless of tenurial arrangement and commodity produced, all public and private agricultural lands as provided in Proclamation No. 131 and Executive Order No. 229, including other lands of the public domain suitable for agriculture.
•5. Schedule of Implementation. - The distribution of all lands covered by this Act shall be implemented immediately and completed within ten (10) years from the effectively thereof.
•6. Retention Limits. - Except as otherwise provided in this Act, no person may own or retain, directly, any public or private agricultural land, the size of which shall vary according to
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6657
CHAPTER I - PRELIMINARY CHAPTER
•1 Title. - This Act shall be known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988.
•2. Declaration of Principles and Policies. - It is the policy of the State to pursue a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The welfare of the landless farmers and farm workers will receive the highest consideration to promote social justice and to move the nation towards sound rural development and industrialization, and the establishment of owner cultivator ship of economic-sized farms as the basis of Philippine agriculture.
•3.Definitions - For the purpose of this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise:
Agrarian Reform means the redistribution of lands, regardless of crops or fruits produced, to farmers and regular farm workers who are landless, irrespective of tenurial arrangement, to include the totality of factors and support services designed to lift the economic status of the beneficiaries and all other arrangements alternative to the physical redistribution of lands, such as production or profit-sharing, labor administration, and the distribution of shares of stock which will allow beneficiaries to receive a just share of the fruits of the lands they work.
CHAPTER II - COVERAGE
•4. Scope. - The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988 shall cover, regardless of tenurial arrangement and commodity produced, all public and private agricultural lands as provided in Proclamation No. 131 and Executive Order No. 229, including other lands of the public domain suitable for agriculture.
•5. Schedule of Implementation. - The distribution of all lands covered by this Act shall be implemented immediately and completed within ten (10) years from the effectively thereof.
•6. Retention Limits. - Except as otherwise provided in this Act, no person may own or retain, directly, any public or private agricultural land, the size of which shall vary according to