Section 3 of AO No. 3, states that beneficiaries must be graduates of a four-year bachelor’s degree in agriculture, agricultural engineering, forestry, forest engineering, or related fields as certified by the registrar of an educational institution, must be landless and a resident of the municipality where the landholding is located.
Applicants should also have the willingness, aptitude, and ability to cultivate and make the land productive, no pending application before DAR as an agrarian reform beneficiary and no pending application or has not been a beneficiary under DAR A.O. No. 03, Series of 1997.