QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 180)
To extend the land-for-the-landless policy by allowing bona fide Filipino vegetable farmers occupying and cultivating areas within the reservations to acquire titles, while also promoting soil, water, and forest conservation; and to direct the eviction of alien farmers and prosecute Filipino “dummies” and their alien exploiters for violations of public land, anti-dummy, and internal revenue laws.
They must be Filipino vegetable farmers who have occupied and cultivated farm lots within the Mount Data National Park and Central Cordillera Forest reservations; then they must comply with the improvement/terracing and conservation conditions specified in EO No. 180.
The parcel of land, or whatever portion remains unimproved and unterraced at the end of the three-year period, automatically reverts to the public domain.
The top or crown must be terraced, improved, and cultivated to prevent soil erosion; the steep hillsides must be planted to trees and/or paspallum grass and other vegetation cover.
The sides should be terraced for cultivation, while the peaks should be planted to trees and/or paspallum grass and other vegetation cover.
Any time within three years from the date of EO No. 180, the claimant may file the corresponding application on a form and in the manner determined by the Director of Lands in accordance with the Public Land Act.
Before the applications are given due course, the areas being applied for must first be excluded from the reservations, i.e., removed from the reserved status to allow the land disposition process.
A screening committee entrusted to make the proper recommendation; it determines/assesses eligibility and recommends whether the title grant should proceed.
A representative of the Director of Forestry; a representative of the Director of Lands; a representative of the Director of Soil Conservation; and a private citizen of the region named by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
No. Compliance with the required conditions is exacted even after grant and issuance of title; the conditions must be expressly stated in the title, and failure to comply results in reversion to the public domain.
The lot involved shall revert to the public domain.
They have until June 30, 1956 to vacate or move out; this is “without prejudice” to their prosecution, together with their Filipino dummies, for violations of public land, anti-dummy, and internal revenue laws.
The National Bureau of Investigation, the Anti-Dummy Board, the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
It conditions the grant of title on terracing and specified vegetation/cultivation measures within set periods, requires these conditions to be expressly stated in the title, and mandates that failure leads to reversion—making conservation enforceable beyond titling.
It grants potential title to qualified Filipino occupants while ordering eviction of alien occupants and directing prosecution of both aliens and Filipino dummies for violations of public land, anti-dummy, and internal revenue laws.
The beneficiaries are Filipino vegetable farmers who have occupied and cultivated farm lots within the specified reservations, implying actual cultivation of vegetable crops rather than mere presence or non-genuine occupation.