Five martial law rules to live by6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Johnson’s visit to IRRI on 26 October 1966, the year the Green Revolution was launched with the introduction of the IR8 variety or the “miracle rice”. Also, there are a host of other laws that were introduced to support its implementation. And that the government justified the non-inclusion of other crops as: one, due to international commitments and two, would have an adverse effect on the country’s national output. In so doing, the government focused on just two crops – rice and corn. Thus, the land-to-the tiller program was to a large extent meant to address peasant unrest. PD 27 also enjoys the distinction of being the law written by hand (see Figures 1-3). Previous tenurial arrangements allowed only sharecropping and leasehold, feudal structures that instituted huge disparity and injustice. For the first time, peasants can now own the land they till. PD 27 is the hallmark of the agrarian reform program. Did the imposition of authoritarian rule aid agrarian reform? Where or from what sector did opposition to agrarian reform come from? How is agrarian reform related to the Green Revolution? What about crops that were outside the purview of agrarian reform? Only by taking into consideration some of these issues and concerns can we have a better grasp of the topic and arrive at some conclusions.Īs the saying goes, the devil is in the details! But let us bear in mind some important introductory notes. This is also an opportune time to ask key questions that are sometimes overlooked. Did the Philippines really achieve sufficiency in rice production to the point that we had surplus and export the grain? This is indeed a timely question as Marcos’ agrarian reform program will be in its 50 th year in two years’ time. In one of the heated exchanges between Imee Marcos and technocrats as to whether the Philippines became a rice exporting country during martial law, the question of her father’s legacy on agrarian reform is put into the fore. Filipino Lessons from Martial Law The Marcos Agrarian Reform Program: Promises and Contradictions This article is an abridged version of a book chapter on the history of land reform in the Philippines. ![]()
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