Agrarian reform is the redistribution of public arid private agricultural lands, regardless of produce and tenurial arrangement, to landless farmers and regular farm workers, to include support services and other arrangements alternative to distribution of land such as production/profit sharing, labor organization, or distribution of shares of stock.
Exemptions And Exclusions
The following are exempt from coverage of the agrarian reform law :
- Lands actually, directly and exclusively used for prawn farms and fishponds provided that they have not been distributed and Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) issued to agrarian reform beneficiaries.
- Lands devoted to the raising of livestock; poultry or swine.
- Agricultural lands reclassified as residential, commercial or industrial thru zoning ordinances approved by the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board before June 15, 1988.
- Agricultural lands with 18% slope or more.
- Lands actually, directly and exclusively used and found necessary for parks, wildlife, forest reserves, reforestation, fish sanctuaries and breeding grounds, watersheds and mangroves.
- Lands actually, directly and exclusively used and found necessary for national defense, school sites, church sites, mosque sites, communal burial grounds, and penal colonies.
