Coverage of Small Landowners With Less Than Seven Hectares Under the Agrarian Reform Program
Letter of Instructions No. 474, issued by President Ferdinand E. Marcos on October 21, 1976, mandates the inclusion of certain tenanted rice and corn lands under the government's Land Transfer Program. Specifically, landowners with tenanted lands of seven hectares or less, who also possess other agricultural lands exceeding seven hectares or urban properties that provide sufficient income, must transfer these smaller lands to emancipate tenant-farmers. The directive aims to ensure that land is equitably redistributed to support tenant-farmers' livelihoods. Additionally, landowners opting for compensation will be paid according to previously established guidelines.
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- What is Coverage of Small Landowners With Less Than Seven Hectares Under the Agrarian Reform Program about?
- Letter of Instructions No. 474, issued by President Ferdinand E. Marcos on October 21, 1976, mandates the inclusion of certain tenanted rice and corn lands under the government's Land Transfer Program. Specifically, landowners with tenanted lands of seven hectares or less, who also possess other agricultural lands exceeding seven hectares or urban properties that provide sufficient income, must transfer these smaller lands to emancipate tenant-farmers. The directive aims to ensure that land is equitably redistributed to support tenant-farmers' livelihoods. Additionally, landowners opting for compensation will be paid according to previously established guidelines.
- What type of law is Letter of Instructions No. 474?
- Coverage of Small Landowners With Less Than Seven Hectares Under the Agrarian Reform Program (Letter of Instructions No. 474) is a Philippine Presidential Issuances enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was Coverage of Small Landowners With Less Than Seven Hectares Under the Agrarian Reform Program enacted?
- Coverage of Small Landowners With Less Than Seven Hectares Under the Agrarian Reform Program (Letter of Instructions No. 474) was enacted on Oct 21, 1976.
- What is the citation for Coverage of Small Landowners With Less Than Seven Hectares Under the Agrarian Reform Program?
- Coverage of Small Landowners With Less Than Seven Hectares Under the Agrarian Reform Program, Letter of Instructions No. 474, Oct 21, 1976 (Philippines)
Law Information
- Reference Number
- Letter of Instructions No. 474
- Date Enacted
- Category
- Presidential Issuances
- Subcategory
- Letters of Instructions
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
October 21, 1976
LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 474
TO : The Secretary of Agrarian Reform
WHEREAS, last year, I ordered that small landowners of tenanted rice/corn lands with areas of less than twenty-four hectares but above seven hectares shall retain not more than seven hectares of such lands except when they own other agricultural lands containing more than seven hectares or lands used for residential, commercial, industrial or other urban purposes from which they derive adequate income to support themselves and their families; acd
WHEREAS, the Department of Agrarian Reform found that in the course of implementing my directive there are many landowners of tenanted rice/corn lands with areas of seven hectares or less who also own other agricultural lands containing more than seven hectares or lands used for residential, commercial, industrial or other urban purposes where they derive adequate income to support themselves and their families;
WHEREAS, it is therefore necessary to cover said lands under the Land Transfer Program of the government to emancipate the tenant-farmers therein;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby order the following:
1. You shall undertake to place under the Land Transfer Program of the government pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 27, all tenanted rice/corn lands with areas of seven hectares or less belonging to landowners who own other agricultural lands of more than seven hectares in aggregate areas or lands used for residential, commercial, industrial or other urban purposes from which they derive adequate income to support themselves and their families.
2. Landowners who may choose to be paid the cost of their lands by the Land Bank of the Philippines shall be paid in accordance with the mode of payment provided in Letter of Instructions No. 273 dated May 7, 1973.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 21st day of October, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Six. casia
Cite This Law
Coverage of Small Landowners With Less Than Seven Hectares Under the Agrarian Reform Program, Letter of Instructions No. 474, Oct 21, 1976 (Philippines)
Coverage of Small Landowners With Less Than Seven Hectares Under the Agrarian Reform Program, Letter of Instructions No. 474 (Phil. 1976)
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