WHEREAS it is imperative that the campaign for production of foodstuffs and other articles necessary for the sustenance of our people be intensified in order to prevent widespread misery and starvation;

WHEREAS in order to attain the aims of the food production campaign, it is necessary to focus national attention to the grave situation now facing the country by fixing a date on which all the people may devote all their time, thoughts and energies to helping in the solution of the acute food problem:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim Sunday, September 1, 1946, National Food Production Day, and call upon all citizens and residents of the Philippines to immediately undertake the production of more foodstuffs and otherwise carry into effect the aims of the food production campaign now being waged all over the country. Every family should at once have its own home garden and poultry or piggery to assure it of at least some of its essential food requirements. Owners of all vacant or idle urban and rural lands should plant or cause the said lands to be planted to food crops or devoted to some form of food production.

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

Done at the City of Manila, this 7^th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the first.

(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO

Chief of the Executive Office