10:00 PM
Fiscal and Financial Policy Committee
Cash Flow for Infrastructure
Monthly balances – 4 year program
Reconciliation of conflicting figures on income and expenditures
Public Works
Unimplemented projects like Laoag Airport and Currimao port
Unreleased contracts
Official Gazette for March 9, 1972: THE FATE of some 1,600 families who will be displaced by the proposed Pantabangan Dam of the Upper Pampanga River Project a multimillion power and irrigation complex, was the principal concern of President Marcos as he signed a proclamation setting aside five parcels of land With a total area of 6,007 hectares wherein families to be displaced by the dam will be resettled.
The President interrupted his desk work at about 9:45 in the morning, and presided at a conference with members of the Cabinet and heads of agencies involved in the agriculture and public works programs of the government.
The conference concentrated on the problems arising from increasing production, and the need to intensify the public works building program. The President emphasized the necessity for checking on past public works fund releases.
Towards this end, the President ordered:
1) Secretary of Public Works and Communications David Consunji to check on past fund releases for public works to determine how much was spent, how much still remained, and what had been accomplished.
Secretary Consunji also to meet with provincial executives and engineers to determine where to build feeder (farm to market) roads in the most productive regions of the country.
2) Secretary of Finance Cesar E.A. Virata to release directly to the local governments their regular and special allotments from the revenue collections.
Secretary Virata also to submit a monthly breakdown of funds available for agricultural production and public works projects, which would serve as basis for future releases.
3) National Irrigation Administrator Alfredo Juinio to submit periodic reports supported by a map of the Philippines on the progress of the irrigation program, and to prepare both long-range (25 years) and short-range (10 years) irrigation programs.
4) The Presidential Arm on Community Development to coordinate the efforts of all government agencies participating in the establishment of cooperatives.
Present at the conference were Secretaries Cesar E.A. Virata of Finance Arturo Tanco, Jr., of Agriculture and Natural Resources, David Consunji of Public Works and Communications, Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr., Budget Commissioner Faustino Sy-Changco, BIR Commissioner Misael P. Vera, Public Highways Commissioner Baltazar Aquino, NIA Administrator Alfredo Juinio, Animal Industry Director Pedro Refuerzo, Fisheries Commissioner Andres Mane, Agricultural Productivity Commissioner Francisco Saguiguit, Deputy Agricultural Credit Administrator Amado Lansang, PACD Regional Director Alberto Virtucio and others.
At another conference, the Chief Executive reiterated that the production of more rice and corn by local farmers not the importation of these basic staples has always been the policy of his administration. The conference this time was with representatives of the rice production sector and with heads of government agencies involved in rice production.
The President lamented the popular impression emphasizing the deficiencies of rice and corn, without taking into account that the government had exerted extraordinary efforts and thereby achieved cereal surplus in 1968-69.
He stressed that lie would not allow the price of rice to go beyond ₱3.00 per ganta.
Cooperatives
Multipurpose
Agri – APC [Agricultural Productivity Commission] and ACA [Agricultural Credit Administration] with PACD [Presidential Assistant on Community Development]
Expenses to be taken from Rural Improvement and Dev. Fund
Rice and Corn Producers, Milling and Farmers
Interview – Face to face
Gen. [Hans] Menzi