AGRARIAN LAW REVIEWER FINALS
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Section 34. Valuation of Lands
Formulation of land valuation scheme
 The PARC shall formulate a valuation scheme
for the land;
 Stimulate the growth of cooperative
 Foster responsible participation of the
workers-beneficiaries in the creation of
Wealth.
Issues of valuation and just compensation
 In case of disagreement, the price as
determined by the PARC, if accepted by
workers, beneficiaries, shall be followed,
without the landowner’s right to petition the
SAC to resolve the issue on valuation.
 Section 57 of CARL provides that RTC-SACs
have original and exclusive jurisdiction over all
petitions for the determination of just
compensation payable to landowners under
the land reform program
Determination of land valuation and compensation
placed under LBP per EO 405
 LBP was made responsible foe the
determination of the land valuation and
compensation for all private lands suitable for
agriculture under either the VOS or CA as
governed by RA 6657
 DAR shall use the determination of LBP
Section 35. Creation of Support Services Office
Office of Support Services headed by DAR
Undersecretary
Support Services Defined
 Support services refers to financial and
technical assistance which DAR may provide
to NGOs or POs, cooperatives, and other self-
help organizations.
Services to be provided by the OSS
 Provides general support and coordinative
services in the implementation of CARP
 Provisions of the ff. services to the
beneficiaries and affected landowners
 Irrigation facilities, especially second crop
season irrigation facilities;
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 Infrastructure development and public
come under agrarian reform
 Government subsidies for use of irrigation
facilities
 Price support and guarantee for all
agricultural produces
 Extending to small landowners, farmers,
and farmers; organizations the necessary
credit, like concessional and collateral-
free loans, for agro-industrialization based
on the social collaterals like the
guarantees of farmers organizations
 Promoting, developing and extending
financial assistance to small and medium
scale industries in agrarian reform areas
 Assigning sufficient numbers of
agricultural extension workers to farmers
organizations
 Research and development and
dissemination of information on agrarian
on agrarian reform, plants and crops best
suited for cultivation and marketing, and
low cost ecologically sound farm inputs
and technologies to minimize reliance on
expensive and imported agricultural
inputs;
 Development of cooperative management
skills through intensive training
 Assistance in the identification of ready
markets for agricultural produce and
training in the other various aspects of
marketing
 Effective information dissemination
system through the DA to promote
marketing and minimize spoilage of
agricultural produce and products
 Credit guarantee fund for agricultural
landowners that will enhance the
collateral value of agricultural lands that
are affected or will be affected by
coverage under agrarian reform program;
 Administration, operation, management
and funding of support services programs
and projects including pilot projects and
models related to agrarian reform
developed by DAR
Need and reason for the creation of OSS
 Assist the ARBs attain economic self-reliance
and help uplift their lives through the
provision of essential services and subsidies.
Infrastructure facilities 30% of all appropriations for support
 Farm-to-market roads services referred to in section 36 of the
 Irrigation systems CARL, shall be immediately set aside and
 Bridges; and made available for agricultural credit
 Post-harvest facilities facilities, subject to the available
conditions:
Section 36. Funding for Support Services 1. 1/3 allocated for subsidies to support
the initial capitalization for
40% of CARP budget during 5 year extension period agricultural production to new ARBs
set aside for support services, subject to the following upon the awarding of the EP or CLOA
conditions: and the remaining 2/3 shall be
a. The DAR shall pursue integrated land allocated to provide access to
acquisition and distribution and support socialized credit to existing ARBS,
services strategy requiring a plan to be including leaseholders; and
developed parallel to the land acquisition 2. LBP and GFIs, accredited savings and
process. credit cooperatives, financial service
b. For 5 year extension period, a minimum of 2 cooperatives, financial service
ARC shall, as far as practicable, be established cooperatives, financial service
by the DAR, in coordination with the LGUs, cooperative banks shall provide the
NGOs, community-based cooperatives and delivery system for disbursement of
people’s organizations in each legislative the above assistance to individual
district with a predominant agricultural agrarian reforms beneficiaries,
populations holders of collective titles and
c. The areas in which ARCS are to be established cooperatives
shall have been substantially covered under
the provisions of the CARK and other agrarian For this purpose, all financing
or land reform laws; and institutions may accept as collateral
d. A complementary support services delivery for loans the purchase orders,
strategy for existing agrarian reform marketing agreements or expected
beneficiaries that are not in barangays within harvests, subject to the ff. conditions:
the ARCs shall be adopted by the DAR a. Loans obtained shall be used in
the improvement or development
ARC to undertake integrated development of agrarian of the farm holding of the ARB or
area the establishment of facilities
 ARC is composed and managed by ARBs who which shall enhance production
shall be willing to be organized and to or marketing farm income
undertake the integrated development of an therefrom
area, and/or their organizations or b. Of the remaining 70% for the
cooperatives. support services, 15% shall be
earmarked for farm inputs as
DAR authority to package proposal and receive requested by the duly accredited
financial aid ARBs, but not limited to:
 The DAR was authorized to package proposals 1. Seeds, seedlings and/or
and receive grants, aids and other forms of planting materials
financial assistance from any source. 2. Organic fertilizers
3. Pesticides
Section 37. Support Services for the ARBs 4. Herbicides
5. Farm animals, implements or
Provisions of support services for ARBs machineries
 The PARC shall ensure that support services
for ARBs are provided, such as: And 5% for seminars, trainings
a. Land surveys and titling; and the like to help empower
b. Socialized terms on agricultural credit ARBs.
facilities; c. Extension services by way of
planting, cropping, production
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 and post-harvest technology
transfer.
d. Infrastructures such as access
trails, mini-dams….
e. Research production and use of
organic fertilizers
f. Direct and active DAR assistance
in the education and organization
of actual and potential ARBs at
the barangay, municipal, city and
provincial and national levelps.
Credit Facilities
a. DAR QUEDANCOR
b. DAR LBP
c. DAR KMI
d. CAP-PBD
e. DAR-ERAP Trust Fund
f. DAR Technology and Livelihood Resource
Center
PARC tasked to formulate and adopt certain policies
 PARC shall likewise adopt, implement, and
monitor policies and programs to ensure the
fundamental equality of women and men in
the ARP as well as respect for the human
rights, social protection, and decent working
conditions of both paid and unpaid men and
women farmer beneficiaries
BKKK (NLSF) secretariat transferred and attached to
LBP
 Bagong Kilusang Kabuhayan sa Kaunlaran was
later renamed to National Livelihood Support
Fund
 Transferred and attached to LBP, for its
supervision including all its applicable and
existing funds, personnel, properties,
equipment and records.
Sanctions for misuse of financial and support services
 Misuse or diversion of the financial and
support services provided in the CARL shall
result in sanctions against the beneficiary
guilty thereof
 Forfeiture of the land transferred
 Other lesser sanctions as may be provided by
the PARC without prejudice to criminal
prosecution
Section 37-A. Equal Support Services for Rural
Women
Rural Women defined
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 Those women who are engaged directly or
indirectly in farming and/or fishing as their
source of livelihood, whether paid or unpaid,
regular or seasonal, or in food preparation,
managing the household, caring for the
children, and other similar activities.
Equal support services for men and women ARBs
 PARC is tasked to ensure support services
integrate the specific needs and well-being of
women farmer-beneficiaries taking into
account the specific requirements of female
family members of farmer-beneficiaries.
Right of women to self-organization
 Rural women are entitled to the right to self-
organization in order for them to have equal
access to:
a. Economic opportunities;
b. Agricultural credit and loans;
c. Marketing facilities and technology
d. Other support servies;
e. Equal treatment in land reform and
resettlement schemes
These are new provisions under RA 9700
Rural women to be assured of certain rights
a. Equal right to ownership of land;
b. Equal shares of farm’s produce; and
c. Representation in advisory or appropriate
decision making bodies.
Section 38. Support Services for Landowners
Provisions of support services to landowners affected
by ARP
PARC shall provide landowners affected by
the CARP and prior agrarian reform programs with the
following services:
a. Investment information, financial and
counselling assistance, particularly investment
information on GOCCs and disposable assets
of the government in pursuit of national
industrialization and economic independence:
b. Facilities, programs and schemes for the
conversion or exchange of bonds issued for
payment of the lands acquired with stocks
and bonds issued by the National
Government, the BSP and other government
institutions and instrumentalities.
c. Marketing of agrarian reform bonds, as well
as promoting the marketability of said bonds
in traditional and non-traditional financial
markets and stock exchanges; and/or
 d. Other services designed to utilize productively
the proceeds of the sale of such lands for rural
industrialization.

Incentives for landowner investing in rural-based

industries
 Incentives in a pioneer or preferred area of
investment under the Omnibus Investment
Code of 1987
 Other incentives by PARC, LBO, other GFIs

Redemption by LBP of landowner’s bonds as

incentive
 LBP shall redeem a landowner’s agrarian
reform bonds at face value as an incentive,
provided at least 50% of the proceeds thereof
shall be invested in a BOI-registered company
or in any agri-business or agro-industrial
enterprise in the region where the CARP-
covered landholding is located.

Additional Incentive
 2% in cash shall be paid to a landowner who:
a. Maintains his/enterprise as a going
concern for 5 years
b. Keeps his investment in a BOI registered
firm for the same period. Provided that
the rights are not prejudiced.

DAR, LBP and DTI shall jointly formulated

implementing guidelines.

Section 39. Land Consolidation

Land consolidation defined.

 The reallocation of parcels of land with the
aim of the landowners to obtain larger parcels
at one or more places in exchange of their
former small and fragmented land plots

Land consolidation projects; purposes

1. Promotion of equal distribution of
landholdings
2. Provision of the needed infrastructure in
agriculture; and
3. Conservation of soil fertility and prevention of
soil erosion.

Section 40. Special Areas of Concern

Observance of certain principles in special areas of

concern forming part of CARP
1. On subsistence fishing
2. On logging and mining concessions
3. On
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