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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 106
TO
: The Secretary of Agriculture &
Natural Resources
The Secretary of Local Government
& Community Development
The Secretary of Finance
The Secretary of National Defense
The Secretary of Agrarian Reform
The Governor, Central Bank
All Provincial Governors
Pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and Presidential Decree No. 262, dated August 2, 1973, the Palayan ng Bayan National Advisory Council, hereinafter known as the Council, is hereby created composed of the following:
Honorary
Chairman - The First Lady
Honorary Vice-Chairman
- The Secretary Of
Agriculture
and Natural
Resources
The Secretary of Local
Government & Community Development
Chairman - Undersecretary J. D.
Drilon, Jr.
Members: -
Bureau of Plant
Industry - Director Eliseo C.
Carandang
Bureau of Agricultural
Economics - Director Leonardo
Paulino
Bureau of
Lands - Director Ramon N. Casanova
Bureau of Forest
Development -
Director Jose Viado
Bureau of Agricultural
Extension - Director Francisco
Saguiguit
Bureau of
Fisheries - Director Felix R. Gonzales
Bureau of
Soils - Director Juan Mariano
National Food & Agriculture
Council - Exec. Director Domingo
Panganiban
Department of Agrarian
Reform - Director Jose Medina, Jr.
National Irrigation
Administration - Administrator
Alfredo Juinio
UP College of
Agriculture - Director P. Escuro
Philippine Council on
Agricultural
Research - Director
R. Abordo
Department of Rural
Banks - Mr. Zosimo Topacio, Jr.
Development Bank of the
Philippines - Mr. Emiliano
Salvatierra
Philippine National
Bank - Mr. Manuel Soliven
Bureau of Public
Works - Director Desiderio Anolin
Agricultural Pesticide
Institute of
the Phil. - Mr. Rene
Capinpin
Philippine
Constabulary - General Fidel Ramos
Department of Local
Government
& Community
Development - Rep. of the Secretary
Government Service
Insurance
System - Rep. of the
General Manager
Social Security
System - Rep. of the Administrator
The Council shall provide operational, financial and technical advice to the provincial governors in the identification and management of their respective Palayan ng Bayan projects.
The following are guidelines which shall be followed in the implementation of this Letter of Instruction:
1.
The Council shall meet at least once a month;
2. The Council
shall organize a Secretariat of
appropriate size to be located in Malacañang and to perform
duties as the Council may direct. The Chairman of the Council is hereby
authorized to create positions to staff the Secretariat, prescribe
their rates and emoluments, appoint or designate officials and
employees to fill such positions and approve the grant of allowances to
Council members and Secretariat staff. He is, likewise, authorized to
approve detail to the Secretariat of such necessary personnel from any
department, office, agency or instrumentality of the national
government, including government owned or controlled corporations and
local government instrumentalities.
3. A Land
Identification Committee shall immediately
be organized in each province, with the District Land Officer as
Chairman and the District Forester and Provincial Soil Technologist as
members, to promptly assist the provincial governor in the
identification of the site for the Palayan ng Bayan project. The
Committee shall work in consultation with the provincial DAR
representative. The site shall be selected from the following:
a.
Vacant alienable and disposable lands of the
public domain.
b. Public land
subdivision projects not actually
occupied and cultivated by applicants-settlers.
c. Vacant
unclassified lands of the public domain.
d. Abandoned,
idle or unused pasture areas and
military, school, penal colony reservations.
e. Timberland
without trees of commercial value
and/or watershed areas which are suitable for farming, the use of which
will not impair forest and water conservation practices.
provided, that preference in the selection shall be given to areas that will involve minimum development cost and disturbance of existing property rights or existing arrangements regarding these lands.
4. The provincial governor shall be responsible for the implementation of the Palayan Ng Bayan Project in his province. He shall organize a provincial development committee to assist him in the management, direction and control of the project. Operational plans shall be prepared by the provincial development committee and approved by the Provincial Governor and this shall be the basis for audit by the General Auditing Office of funds loaned to the province for the Palayan Ng Bayan project;
5. The Council shall provide written guidelines relative to organization, financing and agricultural technology which shall be used by the provincial governors in the management of the projects;
6. The Council shall formulate criteria for the awards to be extended to provinces and governors participating in the Palayan Ng Bayan project.
The following awards shall be provided by or through the First Lady, each crop season:
a.
P100,000 - For the province with
the highest
yields and production (1st prize)
b.
P70,000 - (2nd prize)
c.
P50,000 - (3rd prize)
d. A National
Medal Award for governors whose
provinces win prizes.
7. The provincial governors shall submit monthly management and financial reports to the Chairman of the Advisory Council, thru the Secretariat, who in turn, shall inform all the officials of the Palayan Ng Bayan project. The management report shall contain the progress and problems of the respective projects of the governors. A financial report, shall likewise, be rendered by the Council to the Secretary of Finance.
The Council through its chairman is authorized to call upon any agency of the government to assist in the implementation of the Palayan Ng Bayan Project.
Done in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.
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