About CARP

Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program

The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) is the centerpice program of the Aquino Administration for economic growth and development . Instituted through Republic Act No. 6657, CARP seeks the massive and rapid increase in agricultural productivity and improvements of access of the masses to resources, particularly land. It features the redistribution of agricultural land; the education and organization of beneficiaries, and the delivery of support services-credit, infrastructure, technology, post harvest and marketing facilities, and the like.

The law was signed by Presidenr Aquino on June 10, 1988 and took effect on June 15, 1988.

The legal basis for CARP is Republic Act 6657 otherwise known as Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL). It is an act instituting a CARP to promote social justice and industrialization, providing the mechanism for its implementation, and for other purposes. It was signed by Aquino on June 10, 1988.

Mandate

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) leads the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) through land tenure improvement, agrarian justice, and coordinated delivery of essential support services to client-beneficiaries, and for such purpose; it is authorized to:

Acquire, determine the value of, subdivide into family size farms or organize into collective or cooperative farms and develop private agricultural lands for distribution to qualified tillers, actual occupants, and displaced urban poor;

Administer and dispose all cultivable portions of the public domain declared as alienable and disposable for agricultural purposes transferred to it by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources;

Acquire, by purchase or grant, real estate properties suited for agriculture that have been foreclosed by the national government;

Undertake land consolidation, land reclamation, land forming, and conservation in areas subject to agrarian reform;

Facilitate the compensation of landowners covered by agrarian reform;

Issue emancipation patents to farmers and farm workers who have been given lands under the agrarian reform programs as maybe provided by law;

Provide free legal services to agrarian reform beneficiaries and resolve agrarian conflicts and land tenure problems;

Develop and implement alternative land tenure systems such as cooperative farming and agro-industrial estates, among others;

Undertake land use management and land development studies and projects in agrarian reform areas;

Approve or disapprove the conversion, restructuring or readjustment of agricultural lands into non-agricultural uses;

Monitor and evaluate the progress of agrarian reform implementation;

Assist the Office of the Solicitor General in providing evidence for the reversion proceedings to be filed with respect to lands of the public domain, occupied by private individuals and their tenants or farm workers, which are subject to land reform, and real rights connected therewith which have been acquired in violation of the Constitution or the public lands laws or through corrupt practices; and

Submit progress reports to the Office of the President, to Congress, and to the people at the end of each year and at all times make available to the general public information on the current status of its programs.