Question & AnswerQ&A (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1947)
The primary objective is to encourage the production of rice, corn, and other priority crops in the Philippines to achieve self-sufficiency in food and other agricultural food commodities.
Rice, corn, and other priority crops suited for production but not explicitly defined beyond rice and corn.
It applies to any private agricultural land, whether idle or currently planted to crops other than rice or corn, that is suited to the production of rice, corn, and other priority crops.
Such lands shall not be covered by the land transfer program under P.D. 27, thus protecting landowners from compulsory transfer due to crop shifting.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
The Ministry of Agrarian Reform, together with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, is tasked with promulgating the necessary rules and regulations to implement the decree.
It took effect immediately upon its signing on June 29, 1984.
Only if these lands are planted to or intercropped with rice, corn, or other priority crops suitable for production, they are exempted from the land transfer program.
It aims to allay the fear that lands planted to crops other than rice or corn but later shifted to rice, corn, or other priority crops would be covered and compulsorily transferred under the land transfer program of P.D. 27.