Article 66p. 66

ADMINISTRATIVE CODE AND LAW OF PUBLIC OFFICERS TEXT AND RULES

economic

family-size

farms

to

improve

their

living

conditions.

The

Department

shall

formulate

and

implement

policies, plans and programs for the distribution and

cultivation of all agricultural lands, including sugar and

coconut

lands,

with

the

participation

of

farmers,

farmworkers,

landowners,

cooperatives,

and

other

independent

farmers'

organizations.

It

shall

provide

leadership

in

developing

support

services

to

tenant-owners, farm managers, and other cultivators

through

appropriate

research

and

development

programs,

and

shall

render

adequate

assistance

in

finance, marketing, production and other aspects of farm

management.

SECTION 3. Powers and Functions . — To accomplish

its mandate, the Department shall:

(1) Implement laws, programs and policies for the

acquisition and distribution of all agricultural lands as

provided by laws;

(2)

Resettle

landless

farmers

and

farmworkers in

government-owned agricultural estates which shall be

distributed to them as provided by law;

(3) Recommend and provide incentives for voluntary

sharing of lands by owners of agricultural lands;

(4)

Acquire,

determine

the

value,

subdivide

into

family-size farms, develop and distribute to qualified

tillers, actual occupants and displaced urban poor, private

agricultural lands regardless of area and crops planted;

(5) Administer and dispose of, under a settlement

scheme, all portions of the public domain declared as

alienable and disposable lands for speedy distribution to

and development by deserving and qualified persons

who do not own any land and under such terms and

conditions as the Department may prescribe, giving

priority to qualified and deserving farmers in the province

where such lands are located;

(6) Provide free legal assistance to farmers covered by

agrarian reform and expedite the resolution of agrarian

conflicts

and

land

tenure

problems

either

through

conciliatory or adversary proceedings;

(7)

Provide

creative,

responsive

and

effective

information, education and communication programs

and

projects

both

for

the

tenant

beneficiaries,

landowners, the government and private sectors and the

general public, thereby generating a broad spectrum of

support and understanding of the new agrarian reform

program;

(8)

Strengthen

agrarian

reform

beneficiaries

organizations to a degree of national viability that would

enable them to share in the shaping of government

policies

and

institutionalize

farmers'

participation

in

agrarian

reform

policy

formulation,

program

implementation and evaluation;

(9) Promote the organization and development of

cooperatives of agrarian reform beneficiaries and register

the same;

(10) Implement all agrarian reform laws and for this

purpose issue subpoena , subpoena duces tecum , and

writs of execution of its orders, and decisions and other

legal processes to ensure compliance from all parties

concerned

for

successful

and

expeditious

program

implementation;

(11)

Undertake

land

surveys on lands covered by

agrarian reform, and issue patents to farmers covered by

agrarian reform, both on private and public lands;

(12) Develop, implement and undertake alternative

and innovative land development schemes and land

tenure

systems

such

as,

but

not

limited

to

land

consolidation, land forming, cooperative farming and

agro-industrial estates;

(13) Approve or disapprove conversion of agricultural

lands to non-agricultural uses such as residential and

industrial conversions in accordance with the existing

provisions of law;

(14) Undertake land use management studies;

(15) Compensate the landowners covered by agrarian

reform;

(16)

Integrate

and

synchronize

program

implementation of the Land Bank of the Philippines and

other

relevant

civilian and military government and

private entities involved and mandated to support the

agrarian

reform

program

through

Inter-Agency

Committees and Agrarian Reform Coordinating Councils;

and

(17) Perform such other functions as may be provided

by law.

SECTION

4.

Organizational

Structure .

—

The

Department shall consist of the Office of the Secretary,

the Undersecretary, the Assistant Secretary, the Services

and Staff Bureaus, the Regional Offices, the Provincial

Offices, and the Team Offices.

CHAPTER 2 Department Proper

SECTION 5. Office of the Secretary . — The Office of

the Secretary shall consist of the Secretary and his

immediate staff.

SECTION 6. Undersecretary . — The Secretary shall be

assisted by one (1) Undersecretary who shall perform the

following functions:

(1)

Oversee

the

operational

activities

of

the

Department delegated to him by and for which he shall

be responsible to the Secretary;

(2) Coordinate programs and projects within the DAR

and

with

other

government

agencies

and

farmer

organizations when so delegated by the Secretary;

(3) Assist the Secretary in matters relating to the

operations of the Department;

(4) Assist the Secretary in the preparation of reports;

and

(5) Perform such other duties and functions as may be

provided by law or assigned by the Secretary.

SECTION 7. Assistant Secretary . — The Secretary shall

be assisted by one Assistant Secretary.

CHAPTER 3 Department Services

SECTION 8. Management and Executive Services . —

The Management and Executive Services shall have the

following functions:

(1) Recommend the implementation of appropriate

systems

and

procedures as it relates to the overall

monitoring and feedback mechanisms required by the

Office of the Secretary;

(2) Gather, consolidate, appraise, prepare and submit

regular

top

management

reports

pertaining

to

the

Department

and

overall

administration,

financial,

programs

and

projects

implementation

status

for

decision making purposes;

(3) Design and maintain a program/project display

center(s) that will showcase the Department's various

plans, programs and accomplishments;

(4) Prepare and review office orders, memoranda and

other communications;

(5) Provide secretariat support during meetings and

conferences

including

international

conferences

and

seminars relative to agrarian reform;

(6) Supervise the implementation of department-wide

records management and disposal system;

(7) Develop alternative management systems which

will increase efficiency in the delivery of services, attain

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