Ferdinand Marcos

“ All agencies and offices of the Government are enjoined to extend full cooperation and assistance to the Department of Agrarian Reform to insure the successful prosecution of the Agrarian Reform Program. ”

“ Whereas, among such objectives is to achieve dignified existence for the small farmers free from the pernicious institutional restrains and practices which have not only retarded the agricultural development of the country but have also produced widespread discontent and unrest among our farmers, one of the causes of the existing national emergency; and
Whereas, it is believed that the lasting objectives of land reform may be sooner realized if the whole country is declared a land reform area ”