BOLIVIA

BOLIVIA.

1st anniversary of the Agrarian Reform, August 2, 1953-1954.
Illustrated map of Bolivia.
Airmail. Fourth stamp in a set of 6, issued on 02.08.1954.
Face value: 30 bolivianos.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Printed by La Papelera S.A., La Paz.
Print: 2,500,000 copies.
Sixe: 27 x 35 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 539.
- Scott No. C178.
- StampWorld No. 542.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 603.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 156.

An agrarian reform is a set of political, economic, social and legislative measures promoted in order to modify the structure of ownership and production of land in a given place. Agrarian reforms seek to solve two interrelated problems, the concentration of land ownership in few owners and low agricultural productivity due to the non-use of technologies or speculation with the prices of land that prevents its productive use. In Bolivia, the agrarian reform was promulgated on August 2, 1953 by Decree Law No. 3464 in the town of Ucureña, in the municipality of Cliza (department of Cochabamba), where the first agrarian union in the country had been created in 1936. On October 29, 1956 the decree was enacted into law, decreeing the definitive abolition and the illegality of large estates and turning the former farm laborers into small owners and free citizens with the motto "The land is for those who work it".