WHEREAS, a
more cohesive, integrated, and responsive administrative machinery is
essential to the accelerated and successful implementation of the
agricultural development programs; and chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, as presently organized, the Ministry of Agriculture, the
entity primarily responsible for the implementation of the programs,
needs an improved organizational structure to operate in a unified and
synchronized manner, and therefore should be restructured to enable it
to attain in the most economical, efficient and effective means the
national goal of increased production and self-sufficiency in basic
foods.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
amend Presidential Decree No. 461, as follows:cralaw:red
Section 1. Section 2 shall read as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 2. The Ministry of Agriculture shall be
composed of the Ministry Proper which shall include the Office of the
Minister, the Planning Service, the Financial and Management Service,
the Administrative Service, the Computer Service Center, and the
Agrarian Reform Unit. The bureaus under the supervision and control of
the Ministry are the (1) Bureau of Soils, (2) Bureau of Plant Industry,
(3) Bureau of Animal Industry, (4) Bureau of Agricultural Extension,
and (5) Bureau of Agricultural Economics. They shall be staff bureaus
and primarily responsible for providing advice and assistance to the
Office of the Minister, the development of plans and programs; the
formulation of operating policies and standards; providing technical
supervision to the regional offices; and such other functions as may be
assigned by the Minister of Agriculture. The following government-owned
and controlled corporations are attached to the Ministry: (a) national
Grains Authority, (b) Philippine Tobacco Administration, (c) Philippine
Virginia Tobacco Administration (d) Coconut Investment Company, and (e)
Philippine Cotton Corporation. The National Food and Agriculture
Council, Green Revolution Expanded Program Action Committee, Livestock
Development Council, National Artificial Rain Stimulation Committee,
and the National Meat Inspection Commission are placed under the
administrative supervision of the Ministry. The Fertilizer and
Pesticides Authority, Abaca Industry Development Authority, Philippine
Virginia Tobacco Board, Presidential Committee on Agricultural Credit,
Philippine Agricultural Training Council, Palayan ng Bayan National
Advisory Council, and National Governing Board of the Philippine
Training Centers for Rural Development are attached to the Ministry.
The Philippine Council for Agriculture and Resources Research shall be
attached to the National Science Development Board." chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 2. Section 14 shall read as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 14. The Ministry of Agriculture shall establish
regional offices on a ministry-wide basis and in accordance with
Article I, Chapter III, Part II of the Integrated Reorganization plan,
as amended. Each of these regional offices shall be headed by a
Regional Director who shall be assisted by two Assistant Regional
Directors, one for livestock production and the other one for crop
production. The regional offices of the Bureau of Forest Development,
the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, and the Bureau of Lands
shall be established in accordance with Article I, Chapter III, Part II
of the Integrated Reorganization Plan, as amended, and with Letter of
Implementation No. 9. The Bureau of Mines shall establish its regional
offices in accordance with its requirements, subject to the approval of
the President upon the recommendation of the Minister of Natural
Resources."
Section 3. The Minister of Agriculture shall
promulgate the necessary implementing orders to carry out the
reorganization of the Ministry which shall include the organizational
structures and staffing patterns of the bureaus, regional offices, and
provincial offices of the Ministry, subject to the concurrence of the
Ministry of the Budget in consultation, whenever necessary, with the
Presidential Commission on Reorganization. The Minister is also
authorized to accordingly effect the assignment of existing personnel
to the central, regional and provincial offices; and the reallocation
of existing research, experimental and similar stations and facilities
to the central, regional and provincial offices.
Section 4. Presidential Decree No. 574, is hereby
repealed and all other laws, decrees and orders, or parts thereof,
which are inconsistent with the preceding are hereby repealed or
amended accordingly.
Section 5. The Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-eight.
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