November 16, 1974

LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 227

TO                :     The Secretary of Agrarian Reform

In order to accelerate the implementation of the agrarian reform program, you are hereby directed:

1.         To immediately extend the present operations implementing the land reform program pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 27 down to landholdings of over seven (7) hectares.

2.         To make an inventory of all abandoned private agricultural lands devoted primarily to the production of rice and corn (which are hereby declared covered by Presidential Decree No. 27).

In implementing this Letter of Instructions, you are empowered to call on any government agency for assistance to insure the orderly administration and implementation of this instruction.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 16th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.