WHEREAS, it
is the policy of the State to improve the relationship between
landowner, landholder or legal possessor and tenant in agricultural
lands for the upliftment of the economic and social life of the tenants;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in order to implement the above policy, and to ensure
protection of the rights of tenants, further steps have to be taken to
improve the status of farmers-tillers in agricultural lands or
plantations devoted to crops other than rice or corn.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
decree as part of the law of the land, the following: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 1. A Presidential Committee composed of the
Minister of Agrarian Reform as Chairman, with the Minister of
Agriculture and the Minister of Justice as members, is hereby created
which shall have the principal responsibility to determine the classes
or nature of relationships or arrangements where tenancy shall be
considered to have been established by a farmer-tiller with the
landowner, landholder or legal possessor.
In cases where tenancy is said to exist, the tenant shall be entitled
to the full protection and rights of tenants under Presidential Decree
No. 1038 dated October 21, 1976. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
In addition, the Committee shall have the following functions:cralaw:red
1. Review and look deeper into the existing
situations of tenant-tillers and recommend policies or courses of
action to strengthen their tenurial security and
2. Undertake studies and perform such other tasks as
may be necessary for the protection and improvement of the status of
tenants in plantations devoted to crops other than rice and/or corn.
The Committee may call upon any agency or instrumentality of the
government for such assistance as may be necessary for the performance
of its functions.
Section 2. The plantation owner, landholder or legal
possessor shall immediately determine and identify by a statement filed
with the Ministry of Agrarian Reform the specific areas to be covered
by tenancy for purposes of this Degree.
Section 3. If for any reason, any section or
provision of this Decree shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid,
no other provision of this Decree shall be affected thereby.
Section 4. All decrees, laws and orders, or
provisions thereof inconsistent with this Decree, are hereby repealed
and/or modified accordingly.
Section 5. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and
Seventy-Eight.
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