Administrative Code of 1987
Section 19. Provincial Offices. - The Agrarian Reform Provincial Office is responsible for the direction and coordination of the operation and activities of the Agrarian Reform Teams operating within the province and has the following functions:
(1) Set priorities, specific targets, schedules and deadlines for the execution of approved plans, programs and projects on:
a. land acquisition, distribution, transfer of land ownership to actual tillers, including land tiller-landowners identification, tenurial security and leasehold arrangements, land surveys, land valuation and landowners compensation;
b. continuing information and education programs on agrarian reform;
c. organization and development of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Cooperatives and institutionalizing farmers-government partnership in agrarian policy formulation and program implementation;
d. landowner's compensation and diversion of landowner's capital to industrial development;
e. development and implementation of alternative land tenure systems such as cooperative farming, agro-industrial estates and cooperative-cultivatorship schemes;
f. land use management;
g. compact farming, land consolidation, land reclamation, integrated farming systems, sloping agricultural land technology, and other land conservation measures in agrarian reform covered areas;
h. legal services to farmers covered by agrarian reform and resolution of agrarian conflicts and land tenure problems;
(2) Provide administrative services to the Agrarian Reform Teams within the province;
(3) Provide legal services to agrarian reform beneficiaries in cases arising from or are connected with agrarian disputes, handling of expropriation proceedings, registering cooperatives organized by Agrarian Reform Teams and reviewing and acting on all matters initially investigated and elevated by Agrarian Reform Teams;
(4) Provide technical assistance to the Agrarian Reform Teams in the implementation of approved plans and programs;
(5) Coordinate with government, private agencies and farmer organizations at the provincial level to carry out programs;
(6) Conduct periodic performance audit surveys in collaboration with the regional office, and monitor agrarian reform program accomplishments of Agrarian Reform Teams including operational problems and constraints and recommend appropriate remedial measures for effective program implementation; and
(7) Perform such other functions as may be necessary in the service of the clientele.