WHEREAS, it is the national policy to encourage every
household to produce food for its own consumption and thereby improve
the health and nutrition of our people;
WHEREAS, it is the policy to promote the livestock industry
in the Philippines and disseminate information through practice on the
care and feeding of livestock;
WHEREAS, many families would desire to raise animals on
their own backyard and convert household leftovers into meat but do not
have the ready cash to purchase the animals;
WHEREAS, the Department of Agriculture through the Bureau of
Animal Industry in a joint project with the Green Revolution Program is
providing credit to salaried employees of the government and the
private sector on a salary deduction basis for the purchase of hogs,
rabbits, goats and other livestock to enable each household to convert
household leftovers into meat;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution,
do hereby decree and order that any payments made for the liquidation of
the advances for the Green Revolution-Bureau of Animal Industry Joint
Livestock project will be constituted into a Revolving Fund to be
established in each city or province where the project will be
implemented and that its expenditure may be authorized by the provincial
or city Joint Green Revolution-Bureau of Animal Industry Livestock
Committee in accordance with the guidelines of the project as determined
by the Green Revolution National Executive Committee; and further
decree and order that all laws or local ordinances, rules and
regulations are hereby modified to allow such backyard livestock
projects subject to reasonable restrictions affecting nuisance and
sanitation.
Done in the City of Manila, this 13th day of March, in the year of Our
Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.
(Sgd.)
FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President
Republic of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.)
ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary