Tenants Emancipation Decree

(PD 27)

-All leasehold tenants of lands devoted to rice and corn,

regardless of whether or not they have been declared as land
reform areas, became amortizing owners of the lands they till.
Phrases and Terms under PD 27

 PRIVATE AGRICULTURAL LANDS

PRIMARILY DEVOTED TO
RICE AND CORN

-refer to lands of private ownership

planted with rice and corn as principal
crops as of October 21, 1972.
Phrases and Terms under PD 27

 TENANT-FARMER

-refers to a farmer who actually tills

the land.
Phrases and Terms under PD 27

 IRRIGATED LAND

-refers to a farmland that is supplied with

water by means of irrigation intended to
increase the production.

Examples of irrigation method:

power-pump
gravity flow system
Phrases and Terms under PD 27

 NON-IRRIGATED LAND
(or upland)

-refers to a farmland located on a

higher elevation and is not provided with
water supply through irrigation.

-almost rainfed
Phrases and Terms under PD 27

 NORMAL CROP YEAR

-refers to an agricultural period of 12

months of planting and harvesting
activities not attended by any natural
calamity.
Phrases and Terms under PD 27
 RIGHT OF RETENTION
IN RICE AND CORN LANDS

-is a right of a landowner (of a

landholding devoting to rice and corn) to
retain an area of 7 hectares, provided that
such landowner:
1) is cultivating it; or
2) will now cultivate it.
Tenant-Beneficiaries under PD 27

All tenant-farmers of
private agricultural lands
devoted to rice and corn
under a system of
sharecrop or lease-tenancy,
whether classified as landed estate or not
Tenant-Beneficiaries under PD 27

The tenant-farmer shall be deemed

owner of a portion constituting a
family-size farm of:

3 hectares if irrigated
5 hectares if not irrigated
Tenant-Beneficiaries under PD 27

The value of the land to be transferred

shall be equivalent to
2 ½ times the average of
three normal crop years
immediately preceding the promulgation
of PD 27.
Tenant-Beneficiaries under PD 27

The total cost of the land,

including the interest rate of
6% per annum,
shall be paid by the tenant in
15 years of
15 equal annual amortizations.
Tenant-Beneficiaries under PD 27

In case of default,
the amortization due shall be paid by
the farmers’ cooperative
in which the defaulting tenant-farmer
is a member.
Tenant-Beneficiaries under PD 27

Title to land
acquired pursuant to PD 27
shall not be transferable
except:

1) by hereditary succession; or
2) in favor of the Government.
Tenant-Beneficiaries under PD 27

Title to land
acquired pursuant to PD 27
shall not be transferable
except:

1) by hereditary succession; or
2) in favor of the Government.