Historical Organization

National Institute of Agrarian Reform

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National Institute of Agrarian Reform

Also known as: INRA

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Organization Timeline

First Agrarian Reform Law is signed

📅 17 May 1959

The law limited large estates, redistributed land and created a framework for cooperatives and state farms. It struck at concentrated and foreign landownership.

INRA is created to implement land reform

📅 17 May 1959

The National Institute of Agrarian Reform became a major instrument of economic and political transformation in the countryside.

Agrarian reform prohibits foreign ownership of farmland

📅 17 May 1959

The law challenged the dominance of overseas corporations and connected national sovereignty with redistribution in the countryside.

Agrarian reform grants titles to peasant families

📅 17 May 1959

The programme aimed to turn tenants and precarious cultivators into landholders while also organizing cooperatives on large estates.

Peasants rally in Havana

📅 26 July 1959

Large numbers of rural workers and beneficiaries of agrarian reform joined the anniversary celebration of the Moncada attack.