Field Personnel of the Department.
Section 5
SEC. 5. Field Personnel of the Department.—The field personnel of the Department of Agrarian Reform particularly those assigned to the Agrarian Reform Project Teams, shall now be reoriented towards assuming primary responsibility for implementing agrarian reform programs, particularly the policies, plans and programs on land-tiller-landowner identification, tenurial security and leasehold arrangements, land transactions leading to the transfer of land ownership to tenant-farmers including related records, land valuation and land owners' compensation, land tenure research and such other functions that the Office of the Secretary may assign pertaining to land tenure improvement: Provided, That in order not to disrupt the on-going process of the integrated approach to agrarian reform field implementation, the Agrarian Reform Project Teams shall continue to undertake functions and activities pertaining and related to project identification and formulation; organization of compact and/or integrated farms; and the establishment of cooperative-cultivatorship schemes: Provided, farther, That in order to avoid duplication of functions with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Agrarian Reform shall not undertake agricultural, home and youth development extension activities: Provided, furthermore, That the Department of Agriculture shall assume primary responsibility for providing the necessary agricultural extension services in agrarian reform areas: Provided, finally, That in the agrarian reform areas agricultural extension workers shall be assigned to specific areas of coverage in consultation with the Department of Agrarian Reform.