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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 936
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 936 -
ESTABLISHING THE NATIONAL CROP PROTECTION CENTER WITHIN THE COLLEGE OF
AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES AT LOS BAÑOS, AND
SEVEN REGIONAL CROP PROTECTION CENTER WITHIN THE BUREAU OF PLANT
INDUSTRY
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WHEREAS,
the government is pursuing an intensified food production to program to
ensure an adequate food supply and higher standards of living for our
people and to sustain the socio-economic growth of the country;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, crop protection is vital to the success of the government's
intensified food production programs;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, food and commercial crop losses due to pests amount to
hundreds of millions of pesos annually;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the country has many tropical crops with potential for
expanded production and export if proper crop protection is practiced
to meet the stringent quarantine and pesticide residue requirements of
importing countries;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the country's pest control research efforts are largely
uncoordinated and not made readily available to our farmers;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, there is no systematic effort exerted toward meeting the total
pest control needs of the country, and there is therefore need to
institutionalize the research and field extension forces in pest
control work into an integrated, nationwide crop protection network;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:cralaw:red
Section 1. There is hereby established a National
Crop Protection Center, hereinafter referred to as the Center, in the
College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines at Los
Baños, with the following specific functions:cralaw:red
a. To undertake problem analyses, development
research and planning required to develop crop protection system
against pests of major economic crops.
b. To develop and implement manpower training
program designed to upgrade the pool of manpowers required to meet the
complex pest control needs of the country. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
c. To undertake information exchange and extension
to provide farmers and the public with coordinated information about
the varied facets of pest control and to emphasize the urgent need for
safe and effective pest control practices.
d. To establish adequate linkage between research
and operational phases at the farm level in order to ensure that the
changing research needs for operational activities are based on the
most recent and applicable research findings.
e. To provide scientific advice to government
planners for the formulation of policies and regulatory programs
necessary for dealing with the complex pest control technologies
essential for the protection of crops.
There is also hereby initially established seven regional crop
protection centers of the Bureau of Plant Industry which will serve the
research, extension and protection needs of the geographic areas they
encompass. The functions of the regional crop centers shall be the same
as those of the Center as enumerated hereinabove except that the
emphasis shall be on applied research in the region as well as actual
protection and field extension work. The locations of the initial
regional centers are as follows: 1) Dingras, Ilocos Norte, 2)
Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, 3) Pili, Camarines Sur, 4) Palo, Leyte, 5)
Iloilo City, 6) Malaybalay, Bukidnon and 7) Tacurong, Sultan Kudarat.
Additional regional crop protection centers may be established
hereafter, as may be required from time to time, by the Center, in
consultation with the Advisory Board and with the concurrence of the
Bureau of Plant Industry.
Section 2. The Center shall be headed by a Director
who shall be appointed by the Board of Regents of the University of the
Philippines System upon the joint recommendation by the Advisory Board
of the Center and the Chancellor of the U. P. at Los Baños. The
Director shall be directly responsible to the Dean of the UPLB College
of Agriculture. He shall exercise authority and be responsible for the
Center's overall operations. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 3. The research plans and priorities of the
Center shall be subject to annual review by an Advisory Board to assure
proper direction and relevance of programs and activities in relation
to national requirements. The Advisory Board shall be composed of:cralaw:red
1) The Secretary of Agriculture as Chairman
2) The Dean, UPLB College of Agriculture
3) The Executive Director, National Food and
Agriculture Council
4) The Director Bureau of Plant Industry
5) The Assistant for Research, UP at Los Baños
6) The Director, Crops Research Division, PCARR
7) A Representative of the Pesticide industry
8) A Representative of the farming sector
9) The Executive Director of the Philippine
Pesticide Board
The industry and private sector representative shall be appointed by
the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and they shall serve for
a term of three years.
Section 4. The Center may, in the pursuit of its
mandate, enlist the services of any and all scientists and technical
personnel of any agency or instrumentality in pest control work and
such scientists and technical personnel may be paid honoraria by the
Center.
Section 5. The Center is hereby authorized to
undertake construction of buildings and other facilities and to
purchase local or imported equipment and supplies as may be necessary
to carry out its functions. Further, the Center shall be exempted from
taxes, and other duties for equipment, supplies and materials purchased
abroad when not available locally on favorable terms. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 6. Expenditure and disbursements made by the
Center in the conduct of its activities shall be subject to special
auditing rules and regulations suited to the requirements of research.
These special auditing rules and regulations shall be formulated by the
Commission on Audit and the Center within three months after approval
of this Decree.
Section 7. The Center is also by hereby authorized
to negotiate loans for capital expenditures and staff development
and/or to solicit donations and/or contributions from organizations or
individuals, local or foreign, private or public, for its operations.
Section 8. The amount of P3 million is hereby
appropriated to the University of the Philippines at Los Baños
for Calendar year 1977. This amount or more shall be included in the
annual budget of the Department of Agriculture thereafter to support
the operation of the Center at Los Baños. The incremental
budgetary needs of the Bureau of Plant Industry for the regional crop
protection centers shall be provided in the national budget by way of
the normal annual budget process.
Section 9. All acts, parts of acts, executive
orders, ordinances, rules and regulations which are inconsistent with
the provisions of this Presidential Decree are hereby repealed, amended
or modified accordingly. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 10. This Decree shall take effect
immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 19th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-six.
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