A Study on the Effectiveness of the Implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program in Barangay Tagbakin Haya, Lagalag Tiaong, Quezon

Abstract

Land is a primary factor for production and ownership of the land will help determine the equality in income distribution. The problem of landlessness among farmers has persisted since the Spanish Era. There is a great resistance of the elite landlord class to any significant breakup of their land monopolies, even worse land reform schemes have catered to the wishes of these landlord elites. The implementation of genuine agrarian reform program will help solve the most pressing problem in the country today: massive poverty and insurgency. There have been several reform programs but none of these have truly distributed land to its actual tillers. The peasantry who make up the largest part of our population continue to be ruthlessly exploited by landlords, credit, trading and are kept in miserable poverty. Being an agricultural economy, when land is placed under the direct ownership of the farmer-tillers and adequate support are provided by the government, there will be certainly a boost in the agricultural sector of our economy This study intends to analyze the causes of the success or the failure of the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program as one of the land reform schemes adopted by the government. Furthermore, this study also aims to examine the situation of the farmers in Barangay Tagbakin, Tiaong, Quezon.