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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 287
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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 287
- APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM TO FINANCE
THE ACQUISITION OF HAND TRACTORS
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WHEREAS, it
is the concern of the New Society to emancipate tillers of the soil
from their bondage of tenancy and to encourage them to produce more
food crops to attain self-sufficiency by the adoption of modern farm
practices through the utilization of low- cost hand
tractors; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the Philippines has the lowest rate of farm mechanization in
the world, as reflected in the following facts: Japan — 3.5 deployed
horsepower per hectare; U.S. & Europe — 3 h.p.; Taiwan — 2 h.p.;
Asia — 0.9 h.p. and Philippines — 0.9. h.p.;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the local sources of hand tractors cannot supply the immediate
needs of the emancipated farmers involved in the Masagana 99 and the
Palayan Ng Bayan Programs of the Government;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the immediate procurement of hand tractors will accelerate the
achievement of government goals in food production. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and
General Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, as amended, do hereby
order and decree that the sum of ONE HUNDRED FORTY MILLION PESOS is
hereby appropriated to the Department of Agrarian Reform out of which
TWENTY MILLION PESOS shall be programmed in like amounts annually
thereafter for six (6) years to finance the costs of acquisition and
related costs of 5,000 units of hand tractors for resale at reasonable
costs to the emancipated farmers in areas covered by Presidential
Decree No. 27 to meet the requirements of Masagana 99 and the Palayan
Ng Bayan Programs of the Government.
The Department of Agrarian Reform shall formulate the rules and
regulations to cover the distribution of these hand tractor and the
collection of their amortization.
This Decree shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 6th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and seventy-three.
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