Proclamation No. 2382, issued by President Ferdinand E. Marcos on October 4, 1984, declares the week from October 15 to 21 as Agrarian Reform Week in the Philippines. This initiative aims to highlight the importance of agrarian reform as a means to free tenants from land bondage and to support small farmers. It commemorates the anniversary of Presidential Decree No. 27, which was enacted to advance the agrarian reform program. The celebration is organized under the Ministry of Agrarian Reform and involves various agricultural institutions and farmer associations.
October 4, 1984
PROCLAMATION NO. 2382
DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM OCTOBER 15 TO 21, 1984 AS AGRARIAN REFORM WEEK
WHEREAS, agrarian reform is a program of the State aimed at emancipating the tenant from the bondage of the soil and achieving the goals enunciated in our Constitutions;
WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 27 was promulgated to give meaning and substance to the said program;
WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper to declare an agrarian reform week to celebrate the anniversary of this significant event in our history to focus national attention to Small Farmers Emancipation and to give more support to this endeavor; casia
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the period from October 15 to 21, 1984, an Agrarian Reform Week under the auspices of the Ministry of Agrarian Reform, Land Bank of the Philippines, Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation and duly organized farmers associations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 4th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Four.