COCAFM Favors Extension of CARP
The land reform program in the Philippines was launched by then President Ferdinand Marcos when he issued Presidential Decree No.27 which ordered the distribution of rice and corn lands to landless farmers. The said law was later amended to include sugar land.
When the people power of 1986 ended the martial law regime of Marcos and the nation once again enjoyed the freedom under a democratic form of government, Mrs. Corazon Aquino, widow of the late Sen. Benigno Aquino, Jr., was installed as President and Congress was re-established. One of the laws enacted was Republic Act 6657, better known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) which took effect on June 15, 1988 and instituted a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) to promote social justice and industrialization.
















