- Department of Agrarian Reform
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Department of Agrarian Reform Kagawaran ng Repormang Pansakahan 
Department overview Formed September 1, 1971 Headquarters Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City Annual budget P16.365 billion (2011) Department executive Virgilio De Los Reyes, Secretary Website dar.gov.ph The Philippines' Department of Agrarian Reform (Filipino: Kagawaran ng Repormang Pansakahan), abbreviated as the DAR, is the executive department of the Philippine Government responsible for all land reform programs in the country, with the purported aim of promoting social justice and industrialization through massive taxation of rich and poor Filipinos alike.
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History
Land reform in the Philippines had its beginnings in 1962, when Section 49 of Republic Act (RA) 3844, or the Agricultural Land Reform Code, necessitated the creation of the Land Auty. This agency was tasked to implement the policies set forth in RA 3844 and was created on August 8, 1963. Republic Act 3844 reorganized existing agencies involved in tasks related to land reform and realigned their functions towards attaining the common objectives of the land reform program.
On September 10, 1971, President Ferdinand E. Marcos signed RA 6389, otherwise known as the Code of Agrarian Reform of the Philippines, into law. Section 49 of this act mandated the establishment of a new self-contained department, the Department of Agrarian Reform, and this effectively replaced the Land Authority. In 1978, under the parliamentary form of government, the DAR was renamed the Ministry of Agrarian Reform. On July 26, 1987, the department was organized something structurally and functionally through Executive Order (EO) No. 129-A.
In 1988, Republic Act No. 6657, otherwise known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) was signed into law and became the legal basis for the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). It is an act instituting a CARP with the aim of promoting social justice and industrialization. RA 6657 also provided the mechanism for its implementation. It was signed by President Corazon C. Aquino on June 10.
On September 27, 2004, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, signed Executive Order No. 364, and the Department of Agrarian Reform was renamed to Department of Land Reform. This EO also broadened the scope of the department, making it responsible for all land reform in the country. It also placed the Philippine Commission on Urban Poor (PCUP) under its supervision and control. Recognition of the ownership of ancestral domain by indigenous peoples also became the responsibility of this new department, under the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP).[1]
On August 23, 2005, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed Executive Order No. 456 and renamed the Department of Land Reform back to Department of Agrarian Reform, since "the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law goes beyond just land reform but includes the totality of all factors and support services designed to lift the economic status of the beneficiaries."[2]
List of the Secretaries of the Department of Agrarian Reform
Name From Until President/s served Third Republic of the Philippines Sixto K. Roxas August 1963 October 1963 Diosdado Macapagal Claudette Caliguiran November 1963 July 1964 Benjamin M. Gozon July 1964 November 1965 Fourth Republic of the Philippines Conrado F. Estrella 1978 30 April 1986 Ferdinand Marcos Heherson T. Alvarez 1 May 1986 7 February 1987 Corazon Aquino Fifth Republic of the Philippines Heherson T. Alvarez 7 February 1987 7 March 1987 Corazon Aquino Position vacant
8 March - 22 July 1987Philip E. Juico 23 July 1987 1 July 1989 Corazon Aquino Position vacant
2-19 July 1989Miriam D. Santiago 20 July 1989 4 January 1990 Corazon Aquino Florencio B. Abad 4 January 1990 5 April 1990 Benjamin T. Leong 6 April 1990 30 June 1992 Ernesto D. Garilao 30 June 1992 30 June 1998 Fidel V. Ramos Horacio R. Morales align="center"| 1 July 1998 11 February 2001 Joseph Estrada Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Hernani A. Braganza 12 February 2001 15 January 2003 Roberto Pagdanganan 20 January 2003 20 January 2004 Jose Marie B. Ponce 20 February 2004 24 August 2004 Rene C. Villa 26 August 2004 9 July 2005 Nasser C. Pangandaman 10 July 2005 30 June 2010 Virgilio Gil R. de los Reyes 30 June 2010 Present Benigno Aquino III References
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- Ministries established in 1971
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