DECLARING OCTOBER THE SECOND, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT, FOOD PRODUCTION DAY.

WHEREAS, through a nation-wide and collective
effort, our people have succeeded in tiding over the worst food crisis in our
history;

WHEREAS, very encouraging results are being
achieved in our campaign to increase the production of foodstuffs for the
sustenance of our people;

WHEREAS, it is imperative that this campaign be
further intensified in order to achieve self-sufficiency in food in the
shortest time possible;

WHEREAS, in order to attain this objective, it is
necessary to focus national attention to the unstable food situation still
obtaining in the country by designating a day on which all the people may
devote their time, thought and energies to helping in the solution of the acute
food problem;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of
the Philippines, do hereby proclaim Saturday, October 2, 1948, National Food
Production Day and call upon all inhabitants and civic and religious organizations
of the Philippines to undertake the production of more foodstuffs and to carry
out effectively the aims of the Food Production Campaign now being waged all
over the country. All should redouble their efforts in the production or
raising of the essential food crops, vegetables, fruits, fowls, pigs and fish.
Owners of all vacant or idle urban or rural lands should plant or cause to be
planted said lots to food crops or devoted to some form of food production. I
call particularly upon all officials and employees of the national, provincial
and municipal governments and government-owned or controlled corporations to
lead in the practical observance of the day. The Secretary of Agriculture and
Natural Resources, who is the General Manager of the National Food Production
Campaign, is empowered to make complete arrangements to insure a successful
celebration.

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 2nd day of
August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the third.

ELPIDIO QURINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
EMILIO ABELLO
Executive Secretary

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