Executive Order No. 100 (1955)

MALACAÑAN PALACE

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 100, February 26, 1955 ]

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO STUDY AND FIND WAYS AND MEANS OF PROMOTING FARM MECHANIZATION AND IMPROVING CREDIT FACILITIES TO FARMERS

By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a Committee to study and find ways and means of promoting farm mechanization and improving credit facilities to farmers. The Committee shall be composed of the following:

1. Dr. Amando Dalisay, Executive Secretary, National Economic Council | ..................................... | Chairman 2. Dir. Felix Maramba, Member, National Agricultural Council | ..................................... | Member 3. Mr. Martin Duarte, Koppel (Phil.), Inc | ..................................... | Member 4. Mr. Vicente Sabalvaro, Manager, Tanauan Rural Bank | ..................................... | Member 5. Atty. Jose M. Trinidad, Agriculturist, Rehabilitation Finance Corporation | ..................................... | Member 6. Mr. Patrocinio Cordero, President, Farm Machinery Club | ..................................... | Member 7. Mr. Catalino Cabe, Vice-President, G. A. Machineries, Inc. | ..................................... | Member 8. Mr. R. Marino Corpus, Director, Central Bank | ..................................... | Member 9. Dr. Manuel Marquez, President, Com. Bank & Trust Co. | ..................................... | Member 10. Mr. Luis Ablaza, President, Monte de Piedad | ..................................... | Member 11. Miss Ana Maria Araneta, Regent, Araneta Institute of Agriculture | ..................................... | Member 12. Mr. Primitivo Aguas, International Harvester Company of the Philippines | ..................................... | Member 13. Atty. Vicente Roco, Jr., Vice-President, Radiowealth, Inc. | ..................................... | Secretary

The Committee shall take into account not only tractor spare parts and accessories of machinery but also small labor-saving implements and gadgets developed in Japan, Formosa and India which may be suited to small farms in the Philippines.

The Committee is hereby authorized to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government for such assistance or information as it may need in the performance of its duties and functions.

The Committee shall submit its report and recommendations to the President of the Philippines as soon as possible.

Done in the City of Manila, this 26th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) FRED RUIZ CASTRO

Executive Secretary