FOR :
The Ministry of Human Settlements and Ecology
The Ministry of Social Services and Development
The Ministry of Agriculture
The Ministry of Public Works, Transportation &
Communication
The Ministry of Education and Culture
The Ministry of Public Highways
The Ministry of the Budget
WHEREAS, there has been extensive damage to crops, life and property
caused by super-typhoon "Kading" on October 26;
WHEREAS; the entire Central Luzon region and the provinces of
Pangasinan, La Union and Quezon are now agricultural calamity areas;
and
WHEREAS, the province of Nueva Ecija and parts of Quezon, furthermore,
is a total disaster area with extensive damage to crops, housing,
schoolbuilding, power facilities and infrastructure, since bore the
full brunt of the eye of super-typhoon Kading;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of
the Philippines, by the powers invested in me by the Constitution of
the Philippines, do hereby declare and direct the following:
1.
All of Central Luzon, Pangasinan and La Union are
hereby declared agricultural calamity area.
2. The
province of Nueva Ecija and Quezon as declared total disaster areas
since there was extensive damage not just to crops but also to houses,
schoolbuildings, power facilities and infrastructure as well as the
loss of lives.
3. I direct
the following ministries to immediately set up Relief and
Rehabilitation Headquarters on-site-in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija to
attend to this disaster area: Human Settlements, Social Services and
Development, Agriculture, Public Works, Highways and Education and
Culture.
4. I direct
the Ministry of Human Settlements and Ecology to coordinate the total
relief and rehabilitation in Nueva Ecija and Quezon paying special
attention to the need of providing housing and housing materials to the
thousands of homeless in these areas.
The
National Housing Authority is thereby ordered to mobilize housing
materials for Nueva Ecija and Quezon and to rehabilitate housing and
shelter in these provinces;
5. I direct
the Ministry of Social Services and developments to mount massive
relief operations in Nueva Ecija and affected parts of Quezon
immediately;
6. I direct
the Ministries of Public Works, Transportation and Communication and
Education and Culture to immediately repair school buildings in
disaster areas of Nueva Ecija and Quezon.
7. On
Agricultural rehabilitation throughout Central Luzon, Pangasinan and La
Union; I direct the following:
a.
The Ministry of Agriculture and NGA to suspend any
further rice export commitments until a final assessment of our
exportable surplus is ascertained.
b. The
National Grains Authority:
1)
to supply dryers service free from all Nueva Ecija
farmers for the next fifteen days;
2) to buy
fermented rice at special prices for resale as feeds;
c.
To Bureau of Plant Industry to rush adequate seeds
to calamity areas and to sell these at subsidized prices to farmers.
d. The
National Irrigation Administration, Farms Systems Development
Corporation and Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and
Communications to pinpoint damaged irrigation facilities and such
facilities so that farmers can replant immediately and thus recoup the
heavy palay losses of the main crop.
e. The
Central Bank and the Philippine National Bank to restructure farmers
loans over the next two years and extend new production loans where
feasible.
f. The
National Food and Agriculture Council and the Fertilizer &
Pesticide Authority to distribute fertilizer directly to farmers on
credit, payable after harvest.
g. The
Ministry of Agriculture to plant corn & sorghum in rainfield areas
where replanting is impossible.
h. The Bureau
of Animal Industry to survey animal losses in Northern and Western
Bulacan, Southwestern Pampanga and Southwestern Nueva Ecija. The Bureau
of Animal Industry is further instructed to make available work animal
in areas where there were losses, at a subsidized price.
8. The
Ministry of the Budget to determine the calamity amounts required by
the different Ministries and to release the necessary funds from the
Presidential Calamity Fund to the Ministries, Agencies and Bureaus
involved in the relief and rehabilitation effort.
Done this 28th day of October,
in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight, in the
City of Manila.
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