Sec. 2. Functions and Responsibilities of the National Rice Action Program Task Force. — The National Rice Action Program Task Force shall have the following functions and responsibilities:

1. Coordinate and oversee the implementation of the Rice Action Program of the Government;

2. Provide the framework for the implementation of the Program and ensure that the Program's goals are attained;

3. Supervise and monitor the implementation of the Program;

4. Ensure that the necessary financial and other resources for program implementation are available when and where they are needed, particularly in the supervision of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) in the sourcing, transfer and release of funds to participating agencies;

5. Submit monthly reports to the Office of the President on the implementation of the Program;

6. Select and appoint the farmers' representative to the National Rice Action Program Task Force; and,

7. Fulfill all other functions as may be necessary for the attainment of the goals of the Program.

Sec. 3. Creation of Provincial Rice Action Program Task Force. — There is hereby created a Provincial Rice Action Program Task Force in the twenty-seven (27) priority provinces of the Rice Action Program of the Government, namely: Pangasinan, Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, Bulacan, Laguna, Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Quezon, Camarines Sur, Albay, Sorsogon, Negros Occidental, Iloilo, Capiz, Bohol, Leyte, Zamboanga del Sur, Bukidnon, South Cotabato, Davao del Sur, Davao del Norte, North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, and Maguindanao.

The Provincial Rice Action Task Force shall be composed of the following:

The Governor — Chairman
The Provincial Agricultural
Officer, Department
of Agriculture — Co-Chairman
The District Engineers,
Department of Public
Works and Highways — Member
The Provincial Director,
Department of Trade
and Industry — Member
The Provincial Agrarian
Reform Officer,
Department of Agrarian
Reform — Member
The Provincial Irrigation
Engineer, National
Irrigation Administration — Member
The Provincial Manager,
National Food Authority — Member
The Manager, Land Bank
of the Philippines — Member
The Chairman, Provincial
Agricultural and
Fishery Council — Member
The Representative,
Farmers' Group — Member

Sec. 4. Functions and Responsibilities of the Provincial Rice Action Program Task Force. — The Provincial Rice Action Program Task Force shall have the following functions and responsibilities:

1. Prepare the Operations Plan for the implementation of the program in their respective provinces and submit the same to the National Rice Action Program Task Force within fifteen (15) days after the issuance of this Administrative Order; 

2. Upon the approval of such details by the National Rice Action Program Task Force, implement the program in their respective provinces;

3. Submit monthly reports on the progress of the Program to the National Rice Action Program Task Force;

4. Select and appoint the farmers' representative to the Provincial Rice Action Program Task Force; and

5. Fulfill all other functions necessary for the attainment of the goals of the Program.

Sec. 5. Secretarial Services. — The National Agricultural and Fishery Council (NAFC) shall serve as the Secretariat of the National Rice Action Program Task Force. The Office of the Provincial Agricultural Officer of the Department of Agriculture shall serve as the secretariat of the Provincial Rice Action Program Task Force.

Sec. 6. Funding. — Funds as may be necessary for the operational requirements of the National and Provincial Rice Action Program Task Forces shall be sourced from any available appropriation as may be determined by the Department of Budget and Management in accordance with existing laws.  

DONE in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of May in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety.

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