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figriculture emain source of livelihood evice, coconuts ingar cane, cotton, hemp, bananas, oranges, and many species of fruits & vegetables were grown 2 ways te be done o kaingin system (slash 2 burn) © tillages ewhen the spaniards came to the Philippines, they noted that Cebu £ Palawan were abundant in many agricultural foodstuffs figricultural problems in the philippines eAgravian (and veform struggles emonoculuture production systems extreme weather esoil erosion & poor soil fertility Deforestration & loss of watersheds Agrarian Reform in the Philippines ethe 1981 Philippines constitution, Article II, section 21 says that "The state shall promote comprehensive rural development and agrarian vefovin’ @ the present agrarian reform (aw implemented nationwide is the Republic Act ne. 6657 otherwise known as ‘The comprehensive Agvavion Reform law, signed inte law by the former pres. Corazon C. Aquino & implemented the government program known as Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Land Reform © Refers to a wide variety of programs and measures usually by the government to bring about move effective control and use of land for the benefit of the community. ©The takeover of land by state from big (andlords with compensation, and transfer it to small farmers or landless workers © [tis aimed at changing the agrarian structure to bring equity £ te increase productivity © Includes both the relationship of man to his land, and man's relationship with others (tenant and landlord), A purposive change in the way in which agricultural (and is held ov owned, the methods of cultivation that ave employed or the relation of agriculture of the vest of the economy, Reforms such as there may be proclaimed by a governmed, by interested groups / by revolution figravian Reform © the redistribution of (ands, regardless of crops /fruits produced, to farmers & regular farmworkers who ave landless, ivvespective of tenuvial arrangement to include the totality of factors £ Support services designed to uplift the economic Status of the beneficiaries and all Other arrangements Alternative to the physical redistribution of (ands such as production | profit-sharing, labor administration £ the distribution of shaves Of stocks, which will allow beneficiaries to receive a just shave of the fruits of and they work “It includes various supports to agricultural education, the establishment of cooperatives; development of institutions to provide agricultural credit and other inputs; processing and marketing of agricultural produce; and establishment of aqro-based industries, and others, © Itincludes measures to modernize the agricultural practices and improving the living conditions of everyone within the entire agrarian Community. pre-spanish penod Filipino social system was Feudal. like the feudalistic system in the medieval Europe, a warrior class existed bound by fealty to a warlord eThis class lived on the labor of the serfs and slaves but in exchange, this warrior class protected them and exercised a veady though rough kind of justice Within the Filipino social structure, the datus (chiefs) Comprised the nobility (maharlikas). Then there ave the timawas (freemen), followed by the aliping namamahay (serfs) and aliping, saguiguilid (slaves). The freeborn did not pay tributes ov taxes to the datu, but were bound to follow him te war, They provided their own weapons and gears, manned the Cars when they set sail, built their houses, and planted their vice fields. The serfs served his master or lord. Both master and serfs equally divided the produce of the land They had houses of their own, maintained private property, and passed these on to their childven as legacy. They were also allowed in the free disposal of their chattels (movable personal properties) and theiv (ands. The serfs corresponded to the aparceros (tenants) of the late 19th century Spanish eva. The slaves served the (ord or master in both his house and farm. They were allowed some shave of the harvest, but they were their master’s property. They could be sold, particularly those captured in wars, ev born and reared as farm hands. 
