Colonial Agricultural System
Agricultural System under the Colonial Regime. ✏️ Glenn Junsay Pansensoy · 📁 History · ⏱️ 6 min read The Juez de Sementeras: Power, Pressure, and the Making of Modern Philippine Land Politics 🌾🇵🇭 The Juez de Sementeras: Power, Pressure, and the Making of Modern Philippine Land Politics 🌾🇵🇭 The forgotten local official who stood at the heart of colonial agriculture — enforcing Spanish quotas while trying to shield Filipino farmers from losing everything. From Barangay Communalism to Colonial Control Before the Spaniards arrived in 1521, land in the Philippines was not privately owned in the European sense. Barangays — small, kinship-based communities — practiced communal land use under the leadership of datus. Families tilled the soil together, and resources were shared according to need and custom. Spanish colonization radically changed this. The pueblo system ...