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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 988, March 21, 1972 ]

DECLARING THE THIRD WEEK OF APRIL 1972 AS

PEST CONTROL WEEK

WHEREAS, pest damage on agricultural crops, forest and forest products, stored grains, wooden structures and domestic properties is of such economic magnitude that it adversely affects the country’s economy;

WHEREAS, the need for effective control of these pests such as insects, rodents, plant pathogens, weeds, etc., must be a continuing concern of research scientists and technologists, as well as pest control operators and pesticide companies; and Whereas, it is desirable that national attention be focused on the need for wider utilization of the current advances in pest control science and technology for the benefit of our national economy;

Now, therefore, I, ALEJANDRO MELCHOR, Executive Secretary, by order of His Excellency, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the third week of April 1972 as Pest Control 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 pest control conferences in the interest of pest control science and technology.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-two.

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary

By the Executive Secretary:

(Sgd.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary

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