(Elimination of very large estates)
1. The law shall regulate the resizing of farming units that are excessively large from the point of view of
the agricultural policy objectives, and, in the case of expropriation, must provide for the right of each
owner to the corresponding compensation and to the retention of an area that is sufficient to ensure the
viability and rationality of his own farm.
2. Without prejudice to the stipulation of an experimental period prior to the grant of full title in order to
determine whether the land in question is being used effectively and rationally, expropriated land shall be
handed over for either ownership or holding, as laid down by law, to small farmers, preferably those
integrated into family farming units, to rural workers’ or small farmers’ cooperatives, or to other forms of
worker operation.
Article 95
(Resizing of small farms)
Without prejudice to the right of ownership and as laid down by law, the state shall promote the resizing
of farming units that are smaller than that which is suitable from the point of view of the agricultural
policy objectives, particularly by means of legal, fiscal and credit incentives for their structural or merely
economic integration, particularly in a cooperative form, or by measures designed to join parcels of land
together.
Article 96
(Forms of use of non-owned land)
1. The law shall regulate the regimes governing the rental and other forms of use of non-owned land in
such a way as to guarantee the security and legitimate interests of those who cultivate it.
2. The fee-farming and colony systems shall be prohibited and the conditions that those who cultivate the
land need to put an effective end to the agricultural partnership system shall be created.
Article 97
(State assistance)
1. In pursuit of the agricultural policy objectives the state shall provide preferential support to small and
medium-sized farmers, particularly when they are integrated into family farming units, are sole farmers or
are associated in cooperatives, as well as to agricultural workers’ cooperatives and other forms of worker
operation.
2. This state support shall particularly comprise:
a) The grant of technical assistance;
b) The creation of forms of marketing and sales support upstream and downstream from production;
c) Support for the coverage of risks resulting from unpredictable or uncontrollable climatic or
phytopathological incidents;
d) Stimuli to encourage rural workers and farmers to form and join associations, particularly by forming
producers’, purchasing, sales, processing and service cooperatives and other forms of worker operation.