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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 17 -
ADOPTION OF A SOCIALIZED IRRIGATION SERVICE FEE, COMMUNAL IRRIGATION
SYSTEMS (CIS) AMORTIZATION RATES, AND OTHER URGENT INTERIM MEASURES TO
CUSHION THE EFFECTS OF EL NIÑO AND THE ASIAN CURRENCY CRISIS IN
THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR, PARTICULARLY TO BENEFIT IRRIGATION FARMER
BENEFICIARIES
WHEREAS, Presidential inspection of the
countrysides has established the sorry state of farmer beneficiaries of
irrigation systems of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA),
brought about by the effects of the El Niño phenomenon and the
current Asian currency crisis;
WHEREAS, there is a need to immediately implement interim measures to
assist irrigation farmer beneficiaries, so that they can recover from
the effects of these climatic and economic abnormalities;
WHEREAS, the payment of irrigation service fees and amortization on
Communal Irrigation Systems (CIS) are among the identified obligations
of farmer beneficiaries payable to NIA;
WHEREAS, a review of said obligations justifies the rationalization
thereof, by introducing socialized irrigation fees and amortization on
CIS, thereby equitably distributing the burden of payment among farmer
beneficiaries in national irrigation and communal irrigation
systems;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby
order that the rates of irrigation services fees and CIS amortization
payments to be collected by NIA be as follows:
1.1
a.
2 has. and
below
Above 2 to 5
has.
More than 5
has.
Other Crops
Annual Crops
b.
2 has. and
below
Above 2 to 5
has.
More than 5
has.
Other Crops
Annual Crops
c.
1.2
a.
b.
2.
This Administrative Order shall take effect upon its publication in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 31st day of August, in the Year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Eight.
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