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development, synthesize such with the present stock

data.

The Philippine Council for Agriculture and Resources

Research and Development shall be the lead agency to

strengthen the existing R and D System in coordination

with the Bureau of Agricultural Research, the Philippine

Rice Research Institute and other government research

institutions, private research institutions; state colleges

and universities; and the farmers' organizations in the

area.

SECTION 29. Demonstration Farms . — Technology

verification

and

piloting

shall be conducted by the

farmers' organizations on the farmers' fields under the

supervision

of

the

R

and

D

personnel.

These

demonstration farms shall showcase technologies that

have passed regional adaptability tests.

Emphasis shall be given on the case of application of

the concept/technique, the use of indigenous technology

and materials, resource conservation, the increase in

productivity and income of the farmers and other similar

considerations;

SECTION

30.

Focus

on

Research,

Training and

Extension . — Research, training and extension shall focus

on

the

development

and

transfer

of

adaptive

technologies

that

provide

solutions

to

problems

encountered

by

the

small

farmers

in

the

areas

of

production,

postharvest

and

processing,

marketing,

entrepreneurship

and

management, and community

organizing and institutional development.

SECTION 31. Studies on Soil Types and Climatic

Conditions .

—

The

Bureau

of

Soils

and

Water

Management (BSWM) and other concerned agencies

shall conduct studies in the municipalities and provinces

in order to determine the best use of the land, the most

profitable cropping mix, and the fertilizers needed for

such areas and crops. The BSWM shall likewise determine

the soil management practices suitable for the areas to

ensure sustainability of farming in these areas.

SECTION 32. Extension Services . — The extension

workers of the Department of Agriculture shall serve as

linkages

between

the

small

farmers

and

farmers'

organizations.

Together,

they

shall

identify

on-farm

problems to be referred to the research and development

institutions.

They

shall

likewise

disseminate

tested

location-specific technologies to their farmer clientele.

The

farmers'

organization

shall

complement

the

extension program of the Department of Agriculture for

more

effective

technology

transfer

and

information

dissemination.

SECTION

33.

Agro-industrial

Linkages .

—

The

Department of Trade and Industry and the Department

of Agriculture shall jointly devise a program that will

increase the linkage between agriculture and industries,

especially

those

in

industrial

estates,

through

the

promotion of processing industries in order to develop a

sound

agri-based

industrial

development

of

rural

communities.

CHAPTER X Final Provisions

SECTION

34.

Appropriations .

—

The

amounts

necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act are

hereby authorized to be appropriated in the General

Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment

into law. Other funding sources like the Philippine Aid

Plan may also be tapped for the purpose.

SECTION 35. Implementing Guidelines . — Within

sixty

(60)

days from the effectivity of this Act, the

Department of Agriculture shall issue the necessary rules

and regulations to implement this Act.

SECTION 36. Repealing Clause . — All laws, decrees,

executive

orders,

administrative

orders,

rules

and

regulations

or

parts

thereof

inconsistent

with

the

provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or modified

accordingly: Provided, however , That nothing in this Act

shall amend, modify or repeal the provisions of Republic

Act Numbered Seventy-one hundred sixty, otherwise

known as the Local Government Code of 1991.

SECTION 37. Separability Clause . — In case any

provision of this Act or any portion thereof is declared

unconstitutional by a competent court, other provisions

shall not be affected thereby.

SECTION 38. Effectivity Clause . — This Act shall take

effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official

Gazette or in two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved: June 4, 1992

Published

in

Malaya

and

the

Philippine

Times

Journal

on

June

10,

1992. Published in the Official

Gazette, Vol. 88 No. 30 page 4826 on July 27, 1992.

(An Act Providing a Magna Carta of Small Farmers,

Republic Act No. 7607, [June 4, 1992])

RA No 8425 | Social Reform and Poverty

Alleviation Act

Revised Rules and Regulations Implementing the

Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act

December 11, 1997

AN ACT INSTITUTIONALIZING THE SOCIAL REFORM

AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAM, CREATING

FOR THE PURPOSE THE NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY

COMMISSION, DEFINING ITS POWERS AND

FUNCTIONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of

Representatives of the Philippines in Congress

assembled: :

Section 1. Title . – This Act shall be known as the

"Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act. "

Section 2. Declaration of policy . – It is the policy of

the State to:

(1)

Adopt

an

area-based,

sectoral

and

focused

intervention to poverty alleviation wherein every poor

Filipino family shall be empowered to meet its minimum

basic needs of health, food and nutrition, water and

environmental sanitation, income security, shelter and

decent

housing,

peace

and

order,

education

and

functional literacy, participation in governance, and family

care and psychosocial integrity;

(2) Actively pursue asset reform or redistribution of

productive

economic

resources

to

the basic sectors

including the adoption of a system of public spending

which is targeted towards the poor;

(3) Institutionalize and enhance the Social Reform

Agenda, hereinafter known as the SRA, which embodies

the results of the series of consultations and summits on

poverty alleviation;

(4) Adopt and operationalize the following principles

and strategies as constituting the national framework

integrating various structural reforms and anti-poverty

initiatives:

(a) Social reform shall be a continuing process that

addresses

the

basic

inequities

in

Philippine

society

through a systematic package of social interventions;

(b) The SRA shall be enhanced by government in

equal

partnership

with

the

different

basic

sectors

through appropriate and meaningful consultations and

participation in governance;

(c) Policy, programs and resource commitments from

both government and the basic sectors shall be clearly

defined to ensure accountability and transparency in the

implementation of the Social Reform Agenda;

(d) A policy environment conducive to sustainable

social reform shall be pursued;

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