Agrarian
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- Land was commonly owned by the community known as barangay. This is a small unit of government consisting of 30-100 families administered by the chiefs. Everyone in barangay regardless of the status had access on the land and mutually shares resources and the fruits of their labor. They believed and practiced the concept of stewardship where relationship between man and nature is important.
- Pre-Colonial Times (Before 16th Century)
- The colonial government at this period introduced a pueblo agriculture, a system wherein native rural communities were organized into pueblo and each Christianized native family is given a four to five hectares of land to cultivate. The pueblo agriculture practiced no share cropper class or landless class.
- Spanish Era (1521-1896)
- Realizing that being landless was the main cause of social unrest and revolt that time, the Americans sought to put an end to the miserable conditions of the tenant tillers and small farmers by passing several land policies to widen the base of small landholdings and distribute land ownership among the greater number of Filipino tenants and farmers.
- American Era (1898-1935)
- Commonwealth Years ( 1935-1942)
- Land Reform Program
- The government under the stewardship of President Quezon realized that land reform programs should be implemented immediately. They saw the purchase of friar lands as a possible way to solve the problem of inequitable land ownership. They also saw the Homestead program could be transformed into a massive resettlement program, if properly implemented.
- During this occupation, peasants and workers organized the HUKBALAHAP (Hukbong Bayan Laban sa mga Hapon) on March 29, 1942 as an anti-Japanese group. They took over vast tracks of land and gave the land and harvest to the people.
- Japanese Era
- Let's learn about the Agrarian Reform on the different Eras of the Philippines.
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