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EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The cultivation of high value crops is key to the modernization of the 
country's agricultural sector. However, our extremely fragmented farm sector 
leaves farmers with no access to technology and capital and financial resources 
that would enable them to engage more profitably in the production of high value 
crops. 
This bill promotes the attainment of economies of scale by encouraging 
the adoption of cooperatives systems in the consolidation of small landholdings 
and participation of the corporate sector in the production of high value crops. 
In view of the foregoing, early passage of this bill is earnestly urged. 
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SERGIO OSMENA 111 
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Introduced by Senator S. R. Osmeiia 111 
AN ACT 
TO AMEND R.A. 7900 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE HIGH-VALUE CROPS 
DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1995 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Republic of 
the Philippines in Congress assembled: 
Section 1. Sections 3, 5 and 7 of R.A. 7900 otherwise known as the High 
Value Crops Development Act of 1995 and for other purposes are hereby 
amended to read as follows: 
Sec. 2. Scope of Application. - This Act shall cover BUT SHALL NOT 
BE LIMITED TO upland dwellers as well as lowland tenants, indigenous and 
cultural communities. Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) 
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beneficiaries, 
upland 
farm-owners, 
farmers, 
farmer's 
organizations/associations/cooperatives, community associations and farm- 
workers and to the extent therein provided, the departments, offices, agencies, 
subdivisions, branches or instrumentalities in the areas identified by the 
Department of Agriculture as key commercial crop production areas. 
Sec. 3. Sife Idenfificafion. - The Department of Agrarian Reform and the 
Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Department of Environment 
and Natural Resources: and the municipal concerned. ALONG WITH PRIVATE 
SECTOR INITIATIVE OR VOLUNTEER, shall identify the broad areas suitable 
for high-value crops production, within six (6) months after effectivity of this Act. 
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Provided: That such site identification shall be reviewed at appropriate intervals 
to ensure consistency with agrarian reform program and the national land use 
policy. 
Sec. 4. farm Model. - For the program. [farmers may adopt] PORTIONS 
OF LARGE LANDHOLDINGS MAY BE MADE AVAILABLE TO FARMERS FOR 
THE ADOPTION OF the cooperative system in putting up economically-sized 
farms for high-value crop farming. Farming members shall collectively manage 
individual farms which includes contracting process and means of production, 
planning and coordinating crop varieties; and raising breed, hectarage. 
Distribution and some production measures with reference to the market it shall 
serve. Said farm models may be replicated by farmers’ organizations all over the 
country. 
Sec. 5. Repealing Clause. - All laws or parts thereof, decrees, orders, 
rules and regulations inconsistent with the provision of this Act are hereby 
repealed or modified accordingly: Provided, however, That nothing in this Act 
shall be construed or applied amending R.A. 6657 and other laws on Agrarian 
Reform. 
Sec. 6. Separability Clause. - If any of the provisions of this Act is 
declared invalid, the other provisions not affected thereby shall remain in full 
force and effect. 
Sec. 7. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days 
after its publication in at least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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