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Mission Vision
DAR is the lead government A just, safe and equitable society that
agency that upholds and upholds the rights of tillers to own,
implements comprehensive and control, secure, cultivate and enhance
genuine agrarian reform which their agricultural lands, improve their
actualizes equitable land quality of life towards rural
distribution, ownership, development and national
agricultural productivity, and industrialization.
tenurial security for, of and with
the tillers of the land towards
the improvement of their quality
of life.
Mandate and Functions
 To provide Land Tenure security to landless farmers through land
acquisition and distribution; leasehold arrangements’
implementation and other LTI services;
 To provide legal intervention to Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries
(ARBS) through adjudication of agrarian cases and agrarian legal
assistance;
 To implement, facilitate and coordinate the delivery of support
services to ARBs through Social Infrastructure and Local Capability
Building (SILCAB); Sustainable Agribusiness and Rural Enterprise
Development (SARED); and Access Facilitation and Enhancement
Services (AFAES).
GOALS OF SECRETARY
INTERVENTION ON:
1. LAND TENURE PROBLEM
2. AGRARIAN JUSTICE DELIVERY
3. SUPPORT SERVICES
4. MEDICAL EXPENSES
5. EDUCATION EXPENSES
6. TECHNICAL SKILLS
7. FARM TO MARKET ROADS
8. DIVERSIFIED INCOME SOURCES
9. IRRIGATION
RIGHTS OF THE LANDOWNER
1. RETAIN AN AREA NOT EXCEEDING FIVE HECTARES
2. NOMINATE HIS CHILD/REN WHO MAY QUALIFY AS A
PREFERRED BENEFICIARY/IES OF THE SUBJECT LANDHOLDING
3. SUBMIT A DULY ATTESTED LIST OF LESSEE, TENANTS, AND/OR
REGULAR FARM WORKERS
4. APPLY FOR EXCLUSION/ EXEMPTION CLEARANCE OR FILE A
PROTEST AGAINST CARP COVERAGE
***SUBMIT WITHIN 30 CALENDAR DAYS FROM RECEIPT OF
NOC
ISSUANCES
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 08 >Rules for the Coverage of CARP-
S2011 Covered Lands Subject to
Unauthorized Transfers
the following transfers shall not or Conveyances
be deemed as unauthorized for
the purposes of this A.O.:
(1) those made through SECTION 4. Issuance of Notice of
hereditary succession; Coverage. — In covering under the
CARP an agricultural landholding
(2) consolidation by banks which was a subject of an
to its name of foreclosed unauthorized land transfer, as defined
agricultural in Section 2 of this A.O., the PARO
landholdings, provided shall issue the Notice of Coverage to
that the mortgage, the person or entity registered as the
foreclosure, and said landholding's owner as of 15 June
consolidation was done 1988 (hereafter referred to as "the
in accordance with its original landowner"). The PARO shall
ordinary course of ensure, however, that the person or
 business entity to whom the landholding is
registered at the time the NOC was
(3) sale or disposition by issued is furnished a copy of the NOC.
banks of agricultural
landholdings that it has
foreclosed and
consolidated in its name.

ISSUANCES
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 07 >Revised Rules and Procedures
S2011 Governing the Acquisition and
Distribution of Private Agricultural
Lands Under Republic Act (R.A.) No.
6657, As Amended
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 09 >Rules for the Survey and/or Field
S2011 Investigation of Landholdings where
the Department of Agrarian Reform
and the Landbank of the Philippines
are Denied Entry Thereto
SECTION 4. Certification that the Survey
and/or Field Investigation is Problematic. — If in due
course of the procedure of the DAR, it failed to
conduct the Survey and/or Field Investigation over a
particular landholding due to its being problematic,
the PARO shall, within three (3) days from the failure
of such activity, recommend to the RD that the said
Survey and/or Field Investigation be certified as
problematic. The RD shall review the
recommendation and, if he/she deems it proper,
issue a Certification to that effect, as defined by this
A.O., within five (5) days from receipt of the
recommendation of the PARO. The reason why the
Survey and/or Field Investigation is/are certified as
problematic must be stated in the said Certification.
Upon issuance of the Certification by the RD that the
Survey and/or Field Investigation is/are problematic,
the PARO shall issue a Notice to the landowner
within three (3) days from the receipt of said
Certification stating that:
(1) the landowner must issue and furnish the
DAR and the LBP, through the DAR Provincial Office
(DARPO), within fifteen (15) days from receipt of the
said Notice, an authorization to enter the subject
landholding at any time during reasonable hours to
conduct the necessary surveys and field
investigation.
(2) the failure to issue and furnish the
authorization within the said reglementary period, or
the failure or refusal to allow entry to the personnel
of the DAR and the LBP despite the issuance of the
authorization, shall result in the:
a. DAR choosing the retention area, if the
landowner has notified the DAR of his/her/its
decision to exercise his/her/its right of retention.
b. DAR not conducting the survey and field
investigation until the government attains
possession of the subject landholding, if the
landowner waives his/her/its right to exercise the
right to retain pursuant to Section 27 of A.O. No. 7,
Series of 2011; and
c. initial temporary valuation of the landholding
being determined as if it were classified as idle land,
provided that the initial temporary valuation shall be
reviewed and may be changed once the DAR enters
the landholding and conduct a proper field
investigation.
A duplicate copy of the Certification shall be
attached to the Notice.
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 03 >Awarding Agricultural Lands To
S2020 Qualified Graduates Of Four Year
Degrees In Agriculture Or In Related
Fields For Their Economic
Empowerment And The Growth Of The
Nation

ISSUANCES
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. >Guidelines Simplifying the Land
01, SERIES OF 2020. Acquisition and Distribution Process
on CARP-Covered Agricultural Lands
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 01 >Revised Guidelines and procedures
S2021 on the parcelization of the
landholdings with collective
certificates of land ownership award
(SPLIT)
CONDONATION RA11953
An act emancipating ARBs from
financial burden by condoning:
 all principal loans,
RA 11953 (July 7,2023)  unpaid amortizations,
 interests and
 exempting payment of estate
tax
on agricultural lands awarded
under the Comprehensive
Agrarian Reform Program.

Who are those disqualified to What are the circumstances which will
avail the benefits of this act? not be considered as neglect?

>Those who have committed SEC 10 of RA 11953

the prohibited acts under Sec. • Non -installation of ARBs
73 of RA 6657: • Threats
 ownership or possession • Lack of facilities or support
of lands more than the services
total retention limit or • situations and conditions
award ceilings beyond the control of ARBs
 forcible entry or illegal
detainer of non qualified Estate Tax Exemption
beneficiaries to avail the
benefits of AR Program SEC 7 of RA 11953
 .Illegal conversion
 obstruction to CARP The land awarded to ARBs shall be
implementation excluded from his/her gross estate for
 Sale, transfer or purposes of estate tax. The
conveyance to circumvent Department of Interior and Local
Government (DILG) shall also
 provisions of the RA 6657 encourage local government units to
>Those who violated Sec. 22 of enact local tax amnesty on real
RA 6657 Beneficiaries under property taxes and other transfer
Presidential Decree No. 27 taxes of qualified ARBs under this
 who have culpably sold, Section.
disposed of, or abandoned
their land are disqualified The Act Shall Cover
to become beneficiaries P57.557B (principal debt)
under this Program. 610,054 (ARBs)
 Those who refuse to make 1,173,101.57 has. (agrarian reform
the land productive or lands)
abandoned the land for 2
consecutive calendar
years.