ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to explain the questions of the beneficiaries of the agrarian reform. It provides a brief description of the agrarian reform efforts leading up to the new agrarian reform law in June 1969 and explores the 1961 agricultural census to establish how much agricultural land was available, and how it was owned. The government attempted to defuse the peasant movement by promising land redistribution and by threatening not to give titles to land invaders. The chapter reviews the data on the reform with respect to the number of recipients of land and with respect to the recipients' sociological characteristics. It discusses some issues relevant to the interpretation of the distributionary effects of the agrarian reform. Using some scattered pieces of information on the cooperative agrarian reform enterprises and the chapter also reviews the data on income distribution for these, before and after the reform.
