Preamble
WHEREAS, it is the policy of the State to improve the relationship between landowner, landholder or legal possessor and tenant in agricultural lands for the upliftment of the economic and social life of the tenants; WHEREAS, in order to implement the above policy, and to ensure protection of the rights of tenants, further steps have to be taken to improve the status of farmers-tillers in agricultural lands or plantations devoted to crops other than rice and/or corn. NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby decree as part of the law of the land, the following: