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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 2382, October 4, 1984 ]

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;

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.1aшphi1

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.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive Assistant

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