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PD 27

What is the To emancipate of all tenant farmers, meaning, they will own the lands devoted to
purpose of this rice and corn.
law?
This shall apply to tenant farmers of private agricultural lands primarily devoted
to rice and corn under a system of sharecrop or lease-tenancy, whether classified
as landed estate or not.
How much lands The tenant farmer, whether in land classified as landed estate or not, shall be
should these deemed owner of a portion constituting a family-size farm of five (5) hectares if
tenant farmers own not irrigated and three (3) hectares if irrigated;
under PD 27?
In all cases, the landowner may retain an area of not more than seven (7) hectares
if such landowner is cultivating such area or will now cultivate it.
How much is the For the purpose of determining the cost of the land to be transferred to the
cost of the land to tenant-farmer, the value of the land shall be equivalent to two and one-half (2 ½)
be transferred to times the average harvest of three normal crop years immediately preceding the
tenant-farmer promulgation of this Decree.
pursuant to this
Decree?
Once the land is Yes. The total cost of the land, including interest at the rate of six (6) per centum
transferred to per annum, shall be paid by the tenant in fifteen (15) years of fifteen (15) equal
tenant-farmer, annual amortizations.
should he pay for
the value of the
land?
Suppose the No. Not immediately. In case of default [of payment], the amortizations due shall
tenant-farmer be paid by the farmers' cooperative in which the defaulting tenant-farmer is a
failed to pay, member, with the cooperative having a right of recourse against him.
should the land be
seized from him? That’s why before tenant-farmer is given title to the land, he must become a full-
fledged member of a cooperative so that the latter shall have to pay the
government in an event such tenant-farmer fails to pay his yearly amortizations.
After settling his As a general, no. He can’t. Title to land acquired pursuant to this Decree or the
dues, the tenant- Land Reform Program of the Government shall not be transferable except
farmer acquires 1. by hereditary succession; or
title to the land 2. by selling the same to the Government,
awarded to him In accordance with the provisions of this Decree, the Code of Agrarian Reforms
under this law. Can and other existing laws and regulations.
he transfer title of
his land?

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