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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 2459, October 10, 1985 ]

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM OCTOBER 21 TO 27, 1985 AS AGRARIAN REFORM WEEK

WHEREAS, a milestone in our agrarian reform program was the promulgation of P.D. 27 on October 21, 1972, emancipating tenants from feudal bondage;

WHEREAS, agrarian reform has strengthened the security of tenure of the farmers and improved their social and economic conditions and is now being pursued as a support measure to the national economic recovery 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 on Tenant Emancipation as a turning point in our efforts at national development;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declared the period from October 21 to 27, 1985 as 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 10th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-five.

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

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive Assistant

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