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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1947
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1947 - TO
FURTHER ENCOURAGE THE PRODUCTION OF RICE, CORN AND OTHER PRIORITY CROPS
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WHEREAS,
self-sufficiency in food and other agricultural food commodities is a
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WHEREAS, in line with the agricultural production program of the
government, it is necessary to provide incentives for the production of
rice, corn and other priority crops to the entire agricultural sector
to encourage participation in the production of such crops by devoting
uncultivated lands or lands planted to crops other than rice and corn
to the production of these vital food commodities;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, it is also necessary to allay the underlying fear on the part
of the landowners that the lands which are planted to crops other than
rice or corn but shifted to the production of rice, corn and other
priority crops will be covered by the land transfer program under P.D.
27.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do here order
and decree as follows:cralaw:red
Section 1. Any private agricultural land, whether
classified as landed estate or not, presently idle or devoted to crops
other than rice or corn but suited to the production of rice, corn and
other priority crops, which may now or hereafter be planted to or
intercropped with rice, corn and other priority crops shall not be
covered by the land transfer program as embodied in P.D. 27, as amended.
Section 2. For the purposes of implementing this
Decree, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food shall certify as to the
previous planting of all affected lands and the shift to the
hereinabove designated crops.
Section 3. The Ministry of Agrarian Reform and the
Ministry of Agriculture and shall jointly promulgate such rules and
regulations as may be necessary to implement this Decree.
Section 4. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila this
29th day of June in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and
Eighty-four.
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