Republic Act No. 1199: Agricultural Tenancy Act of The Philippines

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Republic Act No.

1199
Agricultural Tenancy Act of the Philippines

It is the purpose of this Act to establish agricultural tenancy relations between landholders and
tenants upon the principle of school justice; to afford adequate protection to the rights of both
tenants and landholders; to insure an equitable division of the produce and income derived from the
land; to provide tenant- farmers with incentives to greater and more efficient agricultural
production; to bolster their economic position and to encourage their participation in the
development of peaceful, vigorous and democratic rural communities.

Agricultural tenancy is the physical possession by a person of land devoted to agriculture belonging
to, or legally possessed by, another for the purpose of production in consideration of which the
former agrees to share the harvest with the latter, or to pay a price certain or ascertainable, either in
produce or in money, or in both.

Agricultural tenancy is classified into leasehold tenancy and share tenancy.

Share tenancy exists whenever two persons agree on a joint undertaking for agricultural production
wherein one party furnishes the land and the other his labour; the produce thereof to be divided
between the landholder and the tenant in proportion to their respective contributions.

Leasehold tenancy exists when a person who undertakes to cultivate a piece of agricultural land
susceptible of cultivation belonging to or legally possessed by, another in consideration of a price
certain or ascertainable to be paid by the person cultivating the land either in percentage of the
production or in a fixed amount in money, or in both.

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