The Way Forward of Agrarian Reform
Observation
Agrarian reform’s goal to distribute land for farmers to benefit and support the agricultural sector for the country to prosper in terms of food security and growth is a great way to fulfill the basic needs of people. It will greatly benefit those who are in rural areas where the main livelihood of people revolves around farming, giving them ownership and custody of land. If efficiently implemented, most farmers will no longer need to rent lands for them to grow their crops, reducing cost of production resulting to a lower price of goods and a more sustainable livelihood. However, the full potential of agrarian reform is not efficiently utilized due to personal interest of people in power especially those in politics that hinders farmers to have full custody of agricultural lands as they usually are the owner of these large chunk of land and are not willing to easily give it up.
Insights
Agrarian reform is the redistribution of lands, security, ownership, and agricultural productivity that improves the farmer's standard of living. The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program known as (CARP). It aims to promote the social justice, food security, and poverty alleviation of landless farmworkers and develop a policy of large quantity of owned land for the farmers. Whereas the lawmakers are obstructing the funding of CARP because of lack of support and public’s uninterested collaboration. This affects the farmers to suffer from the poverty and lack of income to support their own needs. It can be prevented by showing support or involvement that will empower people to gain attention to secure the development of the country.
Learning
Throughout the lesson, I learned that agrarian reform program is about promoting the agricultural development that supports the farmers to sustain their productivity and growth. The agrarian reform program should adjust their policies for the benefits of farmworkers and without being involved from other private sectors and landowners. This will simply allow the farmers who are accustomed to the authoritarian ways will get a full support of accessing a land with food security and freedom. It is hard to maintain the economic development when there are people who hinders the progress of agriculture. The people of this nation should join forces and fight for what is right to lessen poverty and achieve freedom from oppressed people.
Sources:
Republic Act No. 6657 | GOVPH. (1988, June 10). Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1988/06/10/republic-act-no-6657/