Question & AnswerQ&A (DAR ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 10)
The purpose of DAR Administrative Order No. 10 is to provide the implementing Rules and Procedures for the registration of qualified beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), specifically agricultural lessees, tenants, and farmworkers.
All agricultural lessees, share tenants, regular and seasonal farmworkers, actual tillers or occupants of public lands, collectives or cooperatives of these beneficiaries, and others directly working on agricultural lands planted to rice, corn, and other crops who qualify as CARP beneficiaries.
A basic qualification of a beneficiary is his willingness, aptitude, and ability to cultivate and make the land as productive as possible.
Those excluded include beneficiaries under Presidential Decree No. 27 who have sold, disposed of, or abandoned their lands culpably, and landowners or beneficiaries under P.D. 27 who already own or have been awarded at least three (3) hectares of land under the decree.
An Agricultural Lessee is a person who cultivates land belonging to or possessed by another with consent, for production, and pays a price in money, produce, or both, usually with help from his immediate farm household.
An Agricultural Share Tenant is a tenant-tiller who, under a share tenancy system, cultivates land personally with aid from his immediate farm household, and agrees to divide the produce between the landholder and the tenant.
The procedure includes pre-registration activities like organization of BARCs, information campaign, orientation workshops, establishment of registration centers, the actual registration through prescribed steps, and post-registration posting and data processing.
They must register in the barangay where they work most of the time within the year, or if absent, in their place of residence. A beneficiary may register only once.
Information includes names of the registrant and immediate farm household members, landowner's name, nature of tenurial relationship, location and area of land worked on, crops planted and production data, share in the harvest or wages received, and other relevant details.
The BRC is responsible for setting up registration centers, issuing registration forms, screening potential beneficiaries, ensuring orderly registration, checking forms, preparing and posting masterlists for validation, preparing reports, and keeping records at the barangay level.
The Executive Committee is headed by the Undersecretary for Operations of the Department of Agrarian Reform.
Violation of the rule allowing only one registration per beneficiary is punishable under Section 74 in relation to Section 73(d) of R.A. 6657.
It took effect on June 10, 1989, ten days after its publication in two national newspapers of general circulation.
The MRC supervises registration in the municipality, ensures delivery of forms and administrative support, receives and validates forms, prepares reports to the Provincial Registration Committee, and keeps municipal registration records.