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The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, more commonly known as CARP, is an agrarian reform law of the Philippines whose legal basis is the Republic Act No. 6657, [1] otherwise known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL), signed under the administration of President Cory Aquino. [2]
The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program is the current law under which land reform is conducted. Large landholdings are broken up and distributed to farmers and workers on that particular hacienda. The crops grown on such haciendas include sugar and rice.
The Department of Agrarian Reform (Filipino: Kagawaran ng Repormang Pansakahan, abbreviated as DAR or KRP) is an executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the redistribution of agrarian land in the Philippines. The Secretary of Agrarian Reform is the head of the DAR.
The law frees more than 600,000 farmers from debt. The Act complements the Aquino-era Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, which condones farmers with awarded lands from amortizations (managed by Land Bank of the Philippines), [1] including interest and surcharges. [2]
Implementation and amendment of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law Resettlement of and other support services for agrarian reform beneficiaries Members, 18th Congress
Agrarian reform [ edit ] The Estrada administration widened the coverage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) to the landless peasants in the country side, [ 12 ] distributing more than 266,000 hectares (660,000 acres) of land to 175,000 landless farmers, including land owned by the traditional rural elite.
As a response to the incident, in 1987, the Aquino Government at last implemented a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). It was passed as "an agriculturally-based, economically-driven" reform. This reform applied to all types of agricultural land, both public and private, regardless of tenure arrangement and crops produced.
The signing into law of Republic Act No. 6657 or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) on 10 June 1988 signaled the beginning of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) under former President Corazon Aquino. One of the clauses of the CARP provided for a Stock Distribution Option (SDO), which would allow for compliance with the ...