Section 2
SEC. 2. Section eight of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 8. To enable the rice and/or corn growers, producers and landowners, including the small farmers and tenants to avail of the benefits of this Act, the Administration or any of its agencies must buy at the price that will afford producers a fair and just return for their labor and capital investment as hereunder provided: 1. For each cavan of clean and dry palay of ordinary variety as classified by the Administration weighing forty-six kilos gross, F.O.B. nearest Rice and Corn Administration center or RCA designated bonded warehouse, at prices to he determined by the Board of Administrators for the various rice producing regions taking into consideration the varying costs of production obtaining therein, which prices shall not be less than P16.00: Provided, That the floor prices established by the RCA, by crop regions, shall be announced two months before the regular rice planting season and that said floor prices shall be good for one year: Provided, further, That in the absence of any qualified bonded warehouseman or space in said bonded warehouses, the Rice and Corn Administration shall start to purchase palay immediately at the beginning of every harvest and for this purpose shall send its men and facilities to the places of harvest where the farmers could directly sell their harvested palay: Provided, furthermore, That it shall be prohibited for any person to sell or offer to sell to the Administration any palay other than that directly produced by him as farmer or tenant or his share as landowner and such act shall be punished in accordance with section fifteen of this Act: Provided, finally, That any RCA official or employee who shall knowingly buy such palay for the RCA shall be subject to the same penalty; "2. For each cavan of corn of fifty-six kilos, F.O.B., nearest Rice and Corn Administration center or RCA designated bonded warehouse, at prices to be determined by the Board of Administrators for the various corn producing regions taking into consideration the varying costs of production obtaining therein, which prices shall not be less than P13.00: Provided, That such prices shall be announced not later than April fifteen for the year 1966 and thereafter, not later than January fifteen every year; "3. For both rice and corn, a farmer or tenant to be entitled to sell to the Administration must first certify his total production for the year; and farmers and tenants with production of not more than one hundred cavanes are entitled to priorities and those whose total production exceeds one hundred cavanes shall be entitled to sell not more than thirty (30%) per cent of the excess of the one hundred cavanes. "The Administration shall announce any changes in the floor price for palay and the ceiling price for rice and corn at least two months before the regular rice or corn planting season, which announcement shall be given as wide a publicity as possible."