Some landowners are more benevolent than others

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A FEW years back, the Archdiocese of San Fernando, Pampanga, gave away vast tracts of church-owned land to its tenant farmers. There was no need to open an account with the Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) for the payment of the land amortization. Neither was there a need for the municipal agrarian reform officer, or MARO, to be an intermediary in the land distribution. The Church carried out a mandate of the State, but without the official trappings in the execution of that mandate.

The straightforward reason? The archdiocese made sure that everything was done for free. The beneficiaries got their just share of the land free. The processing of the titles was shouldered by the archdiocese. And the other sweet part was this: the diocese did not split the land 50-50 with the tenants, the usual sharing arrangement. The tenants got 60 percent, and the archdiocese, 40 percent.

The predisposition of most landowners under the VOS scheme is to exact a literal pound of flesh from their sharecroppers via higher land valuations, which would then translate into higher amortizations on the part of the beneficiaries. In collusion with pro-landowner MAROs, the sharecroppers are sometimes duped into accepting 60–40 land-sharing arrangements in favor of the landowners.But there are exceptions to the rule, and that was the luck of my late sharecropper-father.

 

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