THE COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM Flashcards
(21 cards)
One factors of production
Land
As a factor of production, the ________ was implemented to uplift the economic stability of the people especially the farmers
agrarian reform law
One of the priorities of the Aquino government is its commitment to _________.
agrarian reform program
The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) is otherwise known as ______
R.A. 6657
Who signed CARP on June 10,1988
President Corazon Aquino
In its Declaration of Principles and
Policies, the program stated that it is the policy of the State to pursue a ________
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
The welfare of the_____ and ________ will receive the highest consideration to promote social justice and to move the nation toward sound rural development and industrialization, and the establishment of owner cultivator ship of economic-sized farms as the basis of
Philippine agriculture.
landless farmers and farm workers
To this end, a more equitable distribution and ownership of land, with due regard to the rights of landowners to just compensation and to the ecological needs of the nation, shall be undertaken to provide farms and farm workers with the opportunity to enhance their dignity and improve the quality of their lives through greater productivity of _________.
agricultural lands
The President’s sincerity and commitment to the program can be gleaned from a newspaper’s dispatch’ that mentioned the President turning over to some 20,000 Mindanao farmers ______ hectares of farmlands they had been tilling for the past years.
26,000
The farmlands, formerly owned by _______, were given to the workers’ cooperatives of Dole Philippines, Del Monte, and the National Development Corporation.
multinational corporations
The turnover marked the
single biggest distribution of lands to farmers under the ___________.
comprehensive agrarian program
In the 70s, the Philippines has one of the highest __________ rates
in Asia.
farm tenancy
_________ cultivate over 40 percent of all farms in the Philippines, compared with about 25 percent in Thailand.
Tenants
As many as two-thirds of these tenants earn incomes that fall in the bottom _______ of the national income distribution.
40 percent
In the Philippines as in other parts of Asia, ________ often burdens the tenant with high rents, generally amounting to 50 percent of the harvest; unlawful ejections; and excessive interest rates ranging from 50 to 400 percent.
share-cropping
The Philippines’ history of peasant unrest, primarily in _______, is partly a result of these conditions.
Central Luzon
Consequently, the _______ has had a long-standing commitment to a program of agrarian reform that would abolish share cropping and provide greater security of tenure
government
The mandate of the _________ to implement agrarian
reform in the country was pursued with the end in view of emancipating the tenants from the bondage of feudalism and
providing social justice.
1973 Constitution
Thus, during the past years, an agrarian reform program with its corresponding program components and its support activities was undertaken in both _______ as and in the _________.
privately owned lands, public domain
The program in the __________ involved the conversion of share-crop tenants into lease holders/owner-cultivator
privately-owned areas
the program in the ______ involved the establishment of settlement areas where economic family-sized farms were provided to deserving landless tillers.
public domain
