Letter of Instruction No. 474, s.

1976
Signed on October 21, 1976

MALACAÑANG
Manila

LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 474

TO: The Secretary of Agrarian Reform

WHEREAS, last year, I ordered that small landowners of tenanted rice/corn lands with areas of
less than twenty-four hectares but above seven hectares shall retain not more than seven hectares
of such lands except when they own other agricultural lands containing more than seven hectares
or lands used for residential, commercial, industrial or other urban purposes from which they
derive adequate income to support themselves and their families;

WHEREAS, the Department of Agrarian Reform found that in the course of implementing my
directive there are many landowners of tenanted rice/corn lands with areas of seven hectares or
less who also own other agricultural lands containing more than seven hectares or lands used for
residential, commercial, industrial or other urban purposes where they derive adequate income to
support themselves and their families;

WHEREAS, it is therefore necessary to cover said lands under the Land Transfer Program of the
government to emancipate the tenant-farmers therein.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby

order the following:

1. You shall undertake to place under the Land Transfer Program of the government pursuant to
Presidential Decree No. 27, all tenanted rice/corn lands with areas of seven hectares or less
belonging to landowners who own other agricultural lands of more than seven hectares in
aggregate areas or lands used for residential, commercial, industrial or other urban purposes from
which they derive adequate income to support themselves and their families.

2. Landowners who may choose to be paid the cost of their lands by the Land Bank of the
Philippines shall be paid in accordance with the mode of payment provided in Letter of
Instructions No. 273 dated May 7, 1973.

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of October in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and seventy-six.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines
Letter of Instruction No. 46, s. 1972
Signed on December 7, 1972

MALACAÑANG
MANILA

Letter of Instruction No. 46

TO: Secretary Conrado Estrella

  Department of Agrarian Reform

In the implementation of the Government’s Land Reform Program pursuant to Presidential

Decree No. 27, you are required to —

1. Immediately set up pilot projects in the most strategic areas, if possible in all the regions
where tenancy has been generating social unrest.

If possible, set up one pilot projects in each of the provinces in Central Luzon — Nueva Ecija,
Pampanga, Tarlac, Bulacan.

Prepare the program for these pilot projects, especially the funding requirements for the
administrative units, and the credit needs of the farmers and other support services such as roads
and other infrastructures.

2. In the implementation of the program, the needs of the farmers for home lots should not be
overlooked, and appropriate measures should be taken along this line.

It is necessary also for the Government at this time to pinpoint the areas needed for the
expansion of urban communities, for housing and for industrial establishments.

Hence, in the implementation of the land reform program the requirements of these equally
important program of the government should be taken into consideration.

3. If your experience after operating within the limited spheres of the pilot projects points to the
necessity of implementing Presidential Decree No. 27 by phases, you shall be guided in the
implementation of the program in each region or province by the following priorities:

First Priority : — In landed estates or landholdings larger than 24 hectares.

Second Priority : — In landholding of 24 hectares and less but not below 12 hectares.

Third Priority : — In landholding of 12 hectares and less.

These priorities will provide the small landowners, who constitute part of the social middle class,
with time to adjust their economic life plans.

These instructions are issued to ensure the efficient and orderly administration and
implementation of the Land Reform Program.

Done in the City of Manila, this 7th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and seventy-two.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

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