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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 1544, May 1, 1976 ]

DECLARING THE FIRST WEEK OF MAY AS CROP PROTECTION WEEK.

WHEREAS, under Proclamation No. 1256, dated April 18, 1974, the second week of May, 1974 was proclaimed as Crop Protection Week for the reasons and objectives stated therein; and

WHEREAS, it is desirable that continuing national attention and concern be focused on the need for wider utilization of the current advances in crop protection science and technology for the benefit of the national economy;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JACOBO C. CLAVE, Presidential Executive Assistant, by order of His Excellency, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the first week of May, 1976 as Crop Protection Week and enjoin all public and private offices and institutions to encourage and grant official sanction to their personnel concerned to attend and participate in national crop protection and pest control conferences in the interest of advancing our science and technology on crop protection.1aшphi1

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.

(Sgd.) JACOBO C. CLAVE
Presidential Executive Assistant

By the President Executive Assistant:

(Sgd.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Presidential Assistant for Legal Affairs

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