Section 17
SEC. 17. Subsection (a) of section fifty of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows: “SEC. 50. Causes for the Dispossession of Tenant.—Any of the following, and no other, shall be sufficient cause for the dispossession of a tenant from his holdings: The bona fide intention of the landholder-owner or his relative within the first degree by consanguinity to cultivate the land himself personally or through the employment of farm machinery and implements: Provided however, That should the landholder-owner or the aforesaid relative not cultivate the land himself for at least three years or the landholder-owner and his successor in interest should fail to employ mechanical farm implements for a period of at least five years after dispossession of the tenant, it shall be presumed that he acted in bad faith and the tenant shall have the right to demand possession of the land and damages for any loss incurred by him because of said dispossession: Provided, further, That the landholder-owner or the aforesaid relative shall, at least one year but not more than two years prior to the date of his petition to dispossess the tenant under this subsection, file notice with the court and shall inform the tenant in writing in a language or dialect known to the latter of his intention to cultivate the land himself, either personally or through the employment of mechanical implements : Provided, That in the latter case, the notice to the tenant and to the court should be accompanied by a certification of the agricultural tenancy commission that the land is suited for mechanization and by a certification by the manager of the national resettlement and rehabilitation administration that it will be able to provide immediate resettlement to the tenants in case their dispossession is authorized by the court: Provided, farther, That in case any dispossessed tenant is not willing to be resettled, his possession shall not be enforced until the lapse of one year from the date the decision becomes final: Provided, further, That the dispossessed tenant and the members of the immediate household who were not resettled shall be preferred in the employment of necessary laborers under the new set-up: Provided finally, That a landholder may mechanize certain farm operations in a tenanted farm without ejecting any tenant by filing a petition with the court accompanied by a certification of the farm operations applied for will lower the cost of production and will improve the farm culture, in which case the increase in the share of the landholder shall be fixed by the Court in proportion to the labor of the tenant that will be displaced by the farm machine. * * * * * * * “(e) When a share-tenant fails to follow these proven farm practices which, as determined by the court of agrarian relations, will contribute towards the proper care of the land and increased agricultural production in case of conflict as to whether the margate or any other accepted scientific system is a proven farm practice for any particular land, the conflict shall be decided by the court taking the testimony of the proper government officials."