For a long time, land in the Philippines was primarily owned by wealthy landlords. In 1988, the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) was established to distribute agricultural lands over 5 hectares to landless farmers. This helped many farmers gain land ownership and improve their livelihoods. However, CARP faced challenges including unclear land distribution policies, frequent changes in leadership at the Department of Agrarian Reform, and slow implementation due to legal challenges from resisting landlords. Corruption also undermined the program by allowing officials to side with landowners over farmers' rights.
For a long time, land in the Philippines was primarily owned by wealthy landlords. In 1988, the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) was established to distribute agricultural lands over 5 hectares to landless farmers. This helped many farmers gain land ownership and improve their livelihoods. However, CARP faced challenges including unclear land distribution policies, frequent changes in leadership at the Department of Agrarian Reform, and slow implementation due to legal challenges from resisting landlords. Corruption also undermined the program by allowing officials to side with landowners over farmers' rights.
For a long time, land in the Philippines was primarily owned by wealthy landlords. In 1988, the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) was established to distribute agricultural lands over 5 hectares to landless farmers. This helped many farmers gain land ownership and improve their livelihoods. However, CARP faced challenges including unclear land distribution policies, frequent changes in leadership at the Department of Agrarian Reform, and slow implementation due to legal challenges from resisting landlords. Corruption also undermined the program by allowing officials to side with landowners over farmers' rights.
For a long, period of time, Philippine land was owned by
the private sectors. This started during the Spanish regime
when the land was primarily owned by the large landlords and friars. The farmers found it hard to acquire during that time because the only basis for ownership is ancestral domain ship. Agrarian rights were established during the American occupation, but only few initiatives were given and the rich families still continue ton lands in the Philippines. In the year 1988 the Philippines' National Agrarian Reform Program - Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) - which was later termed as Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Extension with Reforms (CARPER), aimed to distribute all agricultural lands beyond five hectares to landless farmers and farm workers. It was such a great help to the farmers for they will be given the chance to own a land. Lots of our farmers have managed to improve their land tenure, the betterment of the farmers who were abused by their landlords and were deprived to own the land that was rightfully theirs. The Department of Agrarian Reform has the task of implementing this program, improved their socio-economic conditions, sent their children to colleges and universities to become urban professionals and avoid the gruesome work on the land, and retired to become managers of the farms that they got under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). On the other hand, the cons of this program were more than what it can offer. First, the CARP is a defective law devoid of unclear policies on land valuations and transfers. There was no clear-cut policies regarding the transfer of certificate of titles of the distributed lands in the farmers. Moreover, expediencies on acquiring lands from the landlords were not explained well which makes this procedure difficult to implement. Second, DAR has changed secretaries often which made it difficult for the success of the program. For every president elected, cabinet secretaries were replaced more than once which makes it hard for the present secretary to conduct a continuous plan for agrarian reforms. Moreover, this event leads to the interruption of the current administration's momentum of doing such projects. Third, there is a slow implementation of this program due to two main reasons. One is that since our country has a democratic system of government, everyone is entitled to undergo due process. A farmer who has a complaint against his or her landlord must go to the court and process the necessary papers and then wait for the court's decision. The landlord if he or she has a complaint must take the same procedures. However, in Philippine society, due to the power and influence of these landlords, most of the decision side with them and causes injustice to the farmers who deserve to have justice. The other cause of the slow implementation is the landlord's resistance, which threatened the lives of local DAR workers and farmers. Fourth, this program is prone to corruption since the people involve have wealth and power with them. Naturally, every rule will be disregarded once money and politics are involved. This also makes DAR officials to side with the landowners rather than promoting the rights of the farmers and tenants.
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) is a nice
program especially to the farmers if it was properly implemented by the government and all the farmers could benefit from this program. In that way, no farmers would be hungry anymore.
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