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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 405
TO
: The Secretary of Agriculture
The Secretary of Local Governments and
Community Development
WHEREAS, the Masagana 99 rice production program is the principal component of the government's success in achieving food self-sufficiency for the nation, and the government is determined to assure the continuing success of that program;
WHEREAS, there has lately emerged a strong need to formulate and implement a medium and long term solution to the perennial rat infestation problem in Central Luzon and other parts of the country, a problem which again threatens to minimize gains already achieved as well as those programmed in this forthcoming Phase VII of the Masagana 99 rice program;
WHEREAS, the annual damage on rice crops wrought by rat infestation is estimated at four percent, equivalent to a huge loss of about P293 million, despite the continuing implementation of several rat control measures by the government;
WHEREAS, other pests and diseases are causing similar significant damage to the country's food crops, thus negating much of the crop gains that are otherwise achieved through proper technology and modern farm methods;
WHEREAS, on the whole, there is now an urgent need for a coordinated, and systematic approach to the country's pest control problems.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby order the following:
1.
The Department of Local Government and Community
Development shall fully involve all barangays in the pest control
program by forming Barangay Rat and Pest Patrols henceforth to be known
as RAPPS, to be coordinated by the Crop Protection Coordinators of the
Bureau of Plant Industry. These Patrols shall be the principal
instruments of implementation of the national rat control program and
other pest control activities.
The DLGCD shall also use its
discretion to devise ways and means to
quicken barangay group action toward this end, such as the holding of
contests and other incentives with the use of resources available at
the local level.
2. All
municipal and provincial governments shall
actively support, participate in and encourage the work of all Barangay
RAPPS in their respective jurisdictions.
3. The
Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to
confer with the manufacturers and distributors of pesticides and
rodenticides in order to prevent any price increases and if possible to
even reduce prices whenever warranted by cost considerations.
4. The
Department of Agriculture, with the assistance
of the military if necessary, shall see to it that all owners of land
which have become breeding places for rate shall take appropriate
measures to eradicate such breeding places using rat extermination
methods and conforming to timetables prescribed by the Bureau of Plant
Industry. Should they fail to do so, the government will itself, or
through authorized entities, undertake such measures for the account of
the landowners.
5. The
Department of Agriculture, through the Bureau
of Plant Industry, shall develop for my approval a comprehensive and
integrated medium — and long-term plan to protect our agricultural
crops from all types of rats, pests and diseases.
6. In
connection with the nationwide plan, the
Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed, in consultation with the
leading agricultural colleges and universities, to immediately draw up
a program to establish a National Crop Protection Center which will
integrate all scientific and technical information and research
facilities with an effective field network of crop protection centers
strategically located throughout the country. This should be presented
to me for my approval at the soonest possible time.
This Letter of Instructions takes 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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