THE Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) has been with us for 36 years since Presidential Decree No. 27 ordering land reform was issued.

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We have spent P200 billion for the program but there is not much to show for its success. Worse, CARP has been blamed for the widespread poverty in the countryside because it broke the link and brought enmity between landowners and tenants.

It is also being blamed for the rice shortage because many areas were converted to other uses by landowners to avoid coverage.

Now, a new bill has been filed in Congress to extend the land reform program for five more years. The law is expected to be approved during the current session, which will end in the middle of June 2009. It is supported by Catholic bishops and by some activists currently demonstrating in Manila.

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Now that we are renewing CARP, we should realize that it is not enough to just pass the law. There should be complete support, financial or otherwise, to guarantee its successful implementation.

The World Unseen movie download Perhaps, it might also be fair to review the pricing of the lands still to be disposed and adjust this to present economic conditions.

Also, as it is now, considering that the bulk of the eligible lands have been disposed, we can reduce the personnel complement of DAR to adjust to a lesser workload, and for them to find placements in some other areas where they are needed.

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We were reading a book lately about cooperative principles and practices, and we think land reform implemented through cooperatives might be more successful.

While it is true that the seed of the cooperative movement has been planted in the Philippines as early as Rizal’s time (when he formed farmers in Dapitan into a society following concepts of coops he picked up in Europe), the movement as a formal vehicle by which people may improve their welfare was introduced in the beginning of the American regime.

Much later, when we became independent, cooperatives of various types were introduced from the 1950s through the 1960s, with rural cooperatives being the major focus, especially with the passage of the Land Reform Code in 1963.

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The period from 1972 to 1986, however, may be seen as a time when the basic principle of cooperativism and voluntary membership was massively and wantonly violated. In fact, membership in cooperatives among farmers was made compulsory, with non-members penalized by being banned from credit, services and other incentives of various government production programs. This happened during the Marcos regime when we registered a dramatic increase in the number of cooperatives called the Samahang Nayon found in almost all places in the country.

Now, they are all gone.

While there are fewer cooperatives today, we believe that, properly managed, they can carrying out a very successful land reform program.

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One Response to “Agrarian reform and cooperativism”

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  Ernest Federiso
  May 26th, 2009 11:58

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