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Diosdado Macapagal

On August 8, 1963, President Diosdado Macapagal enacted Republic Act No. 3844 or the Agricultural Land Reform Code to establish owner-cultivatorship and economic family-size farms, divert landlord capital to industry, achieve dignified existence for small farmers, create a viable social and economic structure in agriculture, apply labor laws equally to agricultural and industrial workers, provide a vigorous land resettlement program, and make small farmers more independent citizens. The act was considered the most comprehensive agrarian reform legislation and intended to emancipate farmers from tenancy by purchasing private farmlands for distribution in small lots to landless tenants with easy payments, establishing the Land Bank of the Philippines to help with the

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Diosdado Macapagal

On August 8, 1963, President Diosdado Macapagal enacted Republic Act No. 3844 or the Agricultural Land Reform Code to establish owner-cultivatorship and economic family-size farms, divert landlord capital to industry, achieve dignified existence for small farmers, create a viable social and economic structure in agriculture, apply labor laws equally to agricultural and industrial workers, provide a vigorous land resettlement program, and make small farmers more independent citizens. The act was considered the most comprehensive agrarian reform legislation and intended to emancipate farmers from tenancy by purchasing private farmlands for distribution in small lots to landless tenants with easy payments, establishing the Land Bank of the Philippines to help with the

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AGRICULTURAL LAND REFORM CODE

(REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3844)

The Agrarian Reform Program which I think is suited for the betterment of our country
is the Republic Act No. 3844 - An act to ordain the agricultural land reform code and to
institute land reforms in the Philippines, including the abolition of tenancy and the
channeling of capital into industry, provide for the necessary implementing agencies,
appropriate funds therefor and for other purposes.
On the 8th day of August, 1963, Republic Act No 3844 or the Agricultural Land Reform
Code was enacted under President Diosdado Macapagal. The policy of the state is to (1) To
establish owner-cultivatorship and the economic family-size farm as the basis of Philippine
agriculture and, as a consequence, divert landlord capital in agriculture to industrial
development; (2) To achieve a dignified existence for the small farmers free from
pernicious institutional restraints and practices; (3) To create a truly viable social and
economic structure in agriculture conducive to greater productivity and higher farm
incomes; (4) To apply all labor laws equally and without discrimination to both industrial
and agricultural wage earners; (5) To provide a more vigorous and systematic land
resettlement program and public land distribution; and (6) To make the small farmers more
independent, self-reliant and responsible citizens, and a source of genuine strength in our
democratic society.

Republic Act No. 3844 was considered to be the most comprehensive piece of
agrarian reform legislation ever enacted in the country time. The said Republic Act was
hailed as one that would emancipate Filipino farmers from the bondage of tenancy.
Provided for the purchase of private farmlands with the intention of distributing them in
small lots to the landless tenants on easy term payment. It also established the Land Bank
of the Philippines to help with the land reform, particularly the purchase of agricultural
estates for division and resale to small landholders, and the purchase of land by the
agricultural lessee.

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