June 29, 1976
MEMORANDUM
TO : All Regional Directors, District Officers
And Team Leaders
SUBJECT : Evaluation of DAR Compact Farming Operations
The organization and development of compact farms is one of the projects the DAR is implementing in collaboration with the ACA and other lending institutions. It is designed to bring about social and economic uplift to our agrarian reform beneficiaries. As a project, compact farming shall reinforce governmental efforts to increase production, promote the cooperative system; and improve the land tenure status of the tillers. DAaHET
Aligned to this effort, the Department of Agrarian Reform thru its Bureau of Farm Management has made representations with the Department of Local Government and Community Development, National Food and Agriculture Council and other agencies to support the DAR Compact Farm Projects. To effect such coordinated efforts, existing policies, procedures and strategies on compact farms are presently being reviewed, however, data and informations available are incomplete.
Like any other undertaking, Compact Farm has its own share of strengths and weaknesses. To strengthen the compact farms as production units and effectively be considered a major pillar to support the cooperative system, a better organized system should be developed. To attain this goal it is imperative that there should be a thorough and continuing evaluation of compact farms.
In this connection therefore, you are hereby directed to organize an evaluation team at the Regional or District level with the following as their Key Result Areas:
1. Viability of all DAR Compact Farms assessed;
2. Extent of pooling of individual member's resources determined;
3. Operational problems encountered by the groups identified.
The Evaluation Team shall conduct the survey using the attached Compact Farm Form. In order to obtain accurate and reliable data, extra care must be made in accomplishing every item of the enclosed form. The accomplished forms shall be forwarded to the Bureau of Farm Management in duplicate copies on or before July 30, 1976.
For immediate and strict compliance.
(SGD.) CONRADO F. ESTRELLA
Secretary