Section 3August 7, 2009, Sec./Art. 3

Section 4 of Republic Act No. 6657, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 4.Scope. -The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988 shall cover, regardless of tenurial arrangement and commodity produced, all public and private agricultural lands as provided in Proclamation No. 131 and Executive Order No. 229, including other lands of the public domain suitable for agriculture: Provided, That landholdings of landowners with a total area of five (5) hectares and below shall not be covered for acquisition and distribution to qualified beneficiaries.

"More specifically, the following lands are covered by the CARP:

"(a) All alienable and disposable lands of the public domain devoted to or suitable for agriculture. No reclassification of forest or mineral lands to agricultural lands shall be undertaken after the approval of this Act until Congress, taking into account ecological, developmental and equity considerations, shall have determined by law, the specific limits of the public domain;

"(b) All lands of the public domain in excess of the specific limits as determined by Congress in the preceding paragraph;

"(c) All other lands owned by the Government devoted to or suitable for agriculture; and

"(d) All private lands devoted to or suitable for agriculture regardless of the agricultural products raised or that can be raised thereon.

"A comprehensive inventory system in consonance with the national land use plan shall be instituted by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), in accordance with the Local Government Code, for the purpose of properly identifying and classifying farmlands within one (1)year from effectivity of this Act, without prejudice to the implementation of the land acquisition and distribution."