Hacienda Luisita v. PARC Digest

Hacienda Luisita v. presidential agrarian reform council, g.r. 171101, Nov. 22, 2011 •

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Pursuant to PD 27, tenant-farmers, tenant-farmers, depending on the sie of the landholding !or"ed on, can either purchase the land the# tilled or shift from share to $%ed-rent leasehold tenanc#. o Ho!ever, the scope of the PD covered onl# tenanted, privatel#-o!ned rice and corn lands. Proclamation No. 1&1, 'eries of 1()7 !as issued instituting a comprehensive agrarian reform program *+P to cover all agricultural lands, regardless of tenurial arrangement and commodit# produced. / 22( provided for the mechanisms for +P implementation and created the Presidential grarian eform +ouncil *P+ as the highest polic#-ma"ing od# that formulates all policies, rules, and regulations necessar# for the implementation of +P.  he 'panish o!ners of aacalera o3ered o3ered to sell Hacienda Hacienda Luisita Luisita and the sugar mill, +entral ucarera de arlac *+, !ithin the estate.  arlac  arlac Devt +orp +orp *adeco, *adeco, o!ned # the 4ose +o5uangco +o5uangco 'r. 'r. 6roup, !as !as !illing to u#. u#.  adeco  adeco undertoo" undertoo" to pa# the purchase purchase price for Hacienda Luisita Luisita in pesos, pesos, !hile that for the controlling interest in +, in ' dollars.  he PH 6ovt, thru the then +entral +entral 8an", assisted assisted the u#er to otain a dollar dollar loan from a ' an". 9n 1(:7, 6'9' also e%tended a P:.(11; loan in favor of adeco upon the condition that the lots comprising the Hacienda Luisita shall e sudivided #  adeco  adeco and sold sold at cost to the the tenants, should there be any , and other applicale conditions under the Land enure ct. 9n 1()0, the martial la! administration $led a suit efore the ;anila + against adeco et al, for them to surrender Hacienda Luisita to the then ;inistr# of rgrarian eform so that the land can e distriuted to farmers at cost.  adeco  adeco et al. alleged alleged that Hacienda Hacienda Luisita does not have tenants tenants and that that esides !hich sugar lands, of !hich the hacienda consisted, are not covered # e%isting agrarian reform legislations.  he ;anila  + ordered ordered adeco adeco to surrender surrender Hacienda Hacienda Luisita Luisita to the ;. ;.  adeco  adeco appealed to the +.  he '6 moved to !ithdra! !ithdra! the govt