Composition of Palayan ng Bayan National Advisory Council ( Letter of Instructions No. 106 )

August 2, 1973

LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 106

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
		and 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 and 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
and 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 Malaca√±ang 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: cdt

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. acd

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. acd

DONE in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of August, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Three.