Adoption of Measures to Prevent Shortage of Acacia Trees for Use in Woodcraft Industries ( Letter of Instructions No. 110 )

August 04, 1973

August 4, 1973

LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 110

TO : The National Cottage Industries Development Authority
    The Bureau of Forest Development
    The Bureau of Plant Industry
    The Office of the Forest Products Research and Industry Development Commission

In order to minimize the hardships in the procurement of the supply of acacia trees utilized as raw materials for the continued operation of woodcraft industries, ways and means to replenish gradually the thinning stock of this valuable wood for the next ten (10) years, should be devised and undertaken. These woodcraft industries are lucrative and their products have constituted for decades the premier export of Philippine cottage industries upon which the livelihood of many entrepreneurs and laborers depends.

The National Cottage Industries Development Authority (NACIDA), the Bureau of Forest Development, the Bureau of Plant Industry and the Forest Products Research and Industry Development Commission are hereby directed to conduct comprehensive studies on how to insure the steady and continued operation of the woodcraft industries and to adopt measures to prevent expected shortages of acacia trees.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 4th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Three.