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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1066
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1066 -
EXEMPTING FROM LAND REFORM ALL UNTENANTED SUGAR LANDS CONVERTED FROM
SUGARCANE PRODUCTION TO THE PRODUCTION OF PRIORITY CROPS SUCH AS RICE,
CORN, FEEDGRAINS, COTTON, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, AND LIVESTOCK
PRODUCTION
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WHEREAS,
the sugar industry is one of the most important contributors to the
national economy, accounting for more than twenty per cent of the
country's foreign exchange earnings; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the industry employs an estimated 450,000 workers, who in turn
support around two million dependents;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, because of the sudden downturn of sugar prices in the world
market, it has now become unprofitable for many sugarcane planters to
grow sugarcane in their areas, market prices having dropped to a level
below production cost;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, due to the market situation, it has now become more profitable
in some areas to shift from sugarcane production to the production of
other crops such as rice, corn, feedgrains, cotton, fruits and
vegetables, and to livestock production;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, there is an underlying fear on the part of these sugarcane
planters that the land shifted temporarily or permanently to rice,
corn, feedgrains and other aforementioned crops will be subject to land
reform under Presidential Decree No. 27;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, because of this fear, any attempt at crop diversification is
encountering stiff resistance and lack of interest on the part of the
sugar planters;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of
the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the
Constitution do hereby decree and order the following: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 1. All lands which were previously devoted
sugarcane production and which shall be shifted to the production of
rice, corn, feedgrains, cotton, fruits and vegetables, livestock and
such other crops as may be designated hereafter by the Department of
Agriculture with the approval of the president of the Philippines shall
be exempted from the Land Reform Program as embodied in Presidential
Decree No. 27 as amended, PROVIDED, that these lands are not worked by
tenant farmers under a system of sharecrop or lease tenancy as defined
in Presidential Decree No. 27.
Section 2. For purposes of implementing this decree,
the Department of Agriculture shall certify as to the previous planting
of all affected lands to sugar and its shift to the hereinabove
designated crops.
Section 3. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 31st day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and seventy-six.
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