Declaring October 21-27, 1982 as Agrarian Reform Week

October 13, 1982

PROCLAMATION NO. 2234

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM OCTOBER 21 TO 27, 1982 AS AGRARIAN REFORM WEEK

WHEREAS, agrarian reform has been instituted and implemented by the government to improve the social and economic conditions of our farmers;

WHEREAS, a milestone in our agrarian reform program was the promulgation of Presidential Decree No. 27 on October 21, 1972, emancipating tenants of rice and corn lands from the bondage of the soil;

WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper to declare an agrarian reform week to celebrate the anniversary of this significant event in our history so as to focus national attention to the agrarian reform program of the government which has given to our farmers a better quality of life;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the law, do hereby declare the period from October 21 to 27, 1982, as Agrarian Reform Week under the auspices of the Ministry of Agrarian Reform 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. casia

DONE in the City of Manila, this 13th day of October in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Two.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 78 No. 48, 6634-6 Supp., on November 29, 1982.