By Neil Jerome C. Morales
The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) was a land reform law mandated by Republic Act No. 6657, signed by President Corazon Aquino on
According to RA 6657, CARP aims “for a more equitable distribution and ownership of land.” It meant to distribute lands to farmers in a span of 10 years, but was extended by the 11th Congress due to delays in land distribution and lack of budget allocation.
Section 3 of RA 6657 defined agrarian reform as the “redistribution of lands, regardless of crops or fruits produced, to farmers and regular farm workers who are landless” 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.”
Vast agricultural lands are distributed to the farmers tilling the land, whereas only a maximum of five hectares can be retained by the landlords, and three hectares for each of their children.
However, a common CARP loophole was that landlords escaped relinquishing their lands through land reclassifications. Lands classified by local zoning ordinances as residential, commercial and industrial lands are excluded from CARP.
SOURCE:
Department of Agrarian Reform website, http://www.dar.gov.ph
55 comments
magkano ba ang mabayaran kung mag aplay na tayo ng titulo sa lupa under CARP?per hectar bayan?
what is the core effect of being a CARP member in the livelihood of the beneficiary?Is it sustainable enough for the next generation?
CARP IS SO USELESS………………..
AH its NOT useLESS..
can you emphasize what really the carp main concerned?
CARP do not exist here in our place honestly..because the people hu runs our province and place are also the people who violate it and were fooling the land tillers here..
so maybe in the nnext 10 years from now people will no longer believe the programss or even the laws of our government..theres really an abuse happening in our place…and in our country at most..take hacienda luicita as an example…its really a shame for our president…
Greetings!
I would like to ask about new rules or law affecting seller of an agricultural land (more than 10 hectares) to the buyer.
Is there any law that limits the seller to sell the whole 10 hectares of land in two or more buyers?
Thank you and more power.
Joeffrey
thanks! its a great help
how is CARP at present.
walang results????
This program was useless since thousands of hectares of the Aquino family was not been distributed ^^