The International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI) began research projects in Dewahuwa Tank and Mahaweli 11-2 during the Yala season (May-Aug.) of 1985. The research focussed initially on agricultural economics (e.g., farmers' use of agricultural inputs and returns from different…
Projections reveal that to sustain the likely world population in the year 2000, an increase of 60 percent in agricultural production will be required. "Is there sufficient land to meet these needs?" becomes the overriding question. However, little precise information exists on which…
The Act consists of 78 sections, divided into 15 Chapters.(A) Policy Framework. It is the stated policy of the state to see to the welfare of the landless farmers and farmworkers, and to establish the owner-cultivatorship of economic-size farms as the basis of Philippine agriculture. To this end…
This text consists of 6 articles. Article 1 establishes the concept of precinct forests defined as the inland and marine fisheries domain and reserved for fishery productivity. Article 2 subjects the issuing of the land property in the precinct forest to the approval by the Ministry of…
The contract concerns the management and the use of land. It consists of 6 articles, concerning, inter alia: (a) the acknowledgement by the State of the applicant's right to manage and use the land according to the laws and regulations in force on the management and use of land and forest…
The present Decree regulates the collection of land titling fees from all land possessors and users. Said fees are distinguished as follows: (a) fees for land title issuing; (b) fees for documents registration; (c) fees for cadastral work. The Ministry of Finance shall determine the rates of…
This Executive Order has been made in implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme (CARP) launched by the Presidential Proclamation No. 131 of 22 July 1987, published in the same Official Gazette, p. 3422-0-1. The basic mechanisms envisaged in the Executive Order to effect the…
The present Decree establishes the composition of the Land Remanagement Committee as well as its main duties, which cover the establishment of the policy for the management and use of the land and the organization of the activity of the Committee at the province and municipality level.
The Decree makes provisions for the extension of peat land to one million hectares in the Province/First-Level Region of Central Kalimantan. The formulation of development programmes is entrusted to a Team for Peat Land Development. The technical implementation of said programmes shall be…
The Enactment amends sections 4, 9(1) and 55, on the definition of "land" and on the powers of the Minister and the Cabinet.
Amends: Land Ordinance (Cap. 68). (1975)
According to section 2, section 21 of the Land Acquisition Ordinance is hereby amended by substituting a colon for the semi-colon appearing at the end of the proviso to paragraph (a) and inserting immediately thereafter the following new further proviso: Cap. 68: "And provided further that…
The present Law distinguishes between five types of property:(1) State property, which includes "material and technical basis of the society under state control" and assets used in operations carried out by the state. According to article 4, paragraph 2, the state may grant the right…