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                                   CERTIFICATE OF
                  EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CORPORATE SECRETARY,
                                   AND TREASURER
                       PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 201, 301 AND 303 
                                  OF THE INDENTURE



          The undersigned, Alan B. Sellers and David B. Cooper, Jr., do hereby
certify that they are the duly appointed and acting Executive Vice President and
Corporate Secretary, and Treasurer, respectively, of DOLE FOOD COMPANY, INC., a
Hawaii corporation (the "Company").  Each of the undersigned also hereby
certifies in such capacities, pursuant to Sections 201, 301 and 303 of the
Indenture, dated as of April 15, 1993, between the Company and Chemical Trust
Company of California, as Trustee (the "Indenture"), that:

          A.   There has been established pursuant to resolutions duly adopted
by the Board of Directors of the Company and of a Pricing Committee thereof (a
copy of such resolutions being attached hereto as Exhibits B and C,
respectively) a series of Securities (as that term is defined in the Indenture)
to be issued under the Indenture, with the following terms:

          1.   The title of the Securities of the series is "7% Notes due 2003"
          (the "Notes").

          2.   The limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Notes which
          may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture (except for
          Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of,
          or in exchange for, or in lieu of other Notes pursuant to Sections
          304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 of the Indenture) is $300,000,000.

          3.   Interest on the Notes shall be payable to the persons in whose
          name the Notes are registered at the close of business on the Regular
          Record Date (as defined in the Indenture) for such interest payment,
          except that interest payable on May 15, 2003 shall be payable to the
          persons to whom principal is payable on such date. 

          4.   The date on which the principal of the Notes is payable, unless
          accelerated pursuant to the Indenture, shall be May 15, 2003. 

          5.   The rate at which the Notes shall bear interest shall be 7% per
          annum.  The date from which interest shall accrue for the Notes shall
          be May 13, 1993.  The Interest Payment Dates on which interest on the
          Notes shall be payable are May 15 and November 15.  The initial
          interest payment on the Notes shall be made on November 15, 1993.  The
          Regular Record Dates for the interest payable on the Notes on any
          Interest 

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          Payment Date shall be the May 1 and November 1, as the case may be,
          immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date.  

          6.   The place or places where the principal of and interest on the
          Notes shall be payable is at the agency of the Trustee maintained for
          that purpose at the office of Chemical Bank, 55 Water Street, North
          Building, Securities Window, Second Floor, New York, New York, 10041,
          provided that payment of interest, other than at Stated Maturity (as
          defined in the Indenture), may be made at the option of the Company by
          check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such
          address shall appear in the Security Register (as defined in the
          Indenture), and provided further that the Depositary (as defined
          below), or its nominee, as holder of Global Securities (as defined in
          the Indenture), shall be entitled to receive payments of interest by
          wire transfer of immediately available funds.

          7.   The Notes are not redeemable prior to May 15, 2003.  

          8.   There is no obligation of the Company to redeem or purchase the
          Notes pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions, or to
          repay any of the Notes prior to Stated Maturity at the option of a
          holder thereof. 

          9.   The Notes shall be issued in fully registered form in
          denominations of $1,000 or any amount in excess thereof which is an
          integral multiple of $1,000.

          10.  The principal amount of the Notes shall be payable upon
          declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to
          Section 502 of the Indenture.

          11.  The provisions of Sections 1008 and 1009 of the Indenture shall
          apply to the Notes.  The provisions of Sections 1301 and 1302 of the
          Indenture shall not apply to the Notes.

          12.  The Notes shall be defeasible as provided in Article FOURTEEN of
          the Indenture.

          13.  Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day
          year of twelve 30-day months.

          14.  The Notes will be issued in the form of Global Securities (as
          defined in the Indenture). The Depository Trust Company shall be the
          Depositary (as defined in the Indenture) for the Global Securities. 
          The Notes shall only be transferred in accordance with the provisions
          of Section 305 of the Indenture.

          B.   The form of the Global Security representing the Notes is
attached 

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hereto as Exhibit A.

          C.   The Trustee is appointed a Paying Agent.

          D.   The foregoing form and terms of the Notes have been established
in conformity with the provisions of the Indenture.

          E.   The undersigned has read the provisions of Sections 301 and 303
of the Indenture and the definitions relating thereto and the resolutions
adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company and a Pricing Committee thereof
and delivered herewith and has examined the form of Global Security representing
the Notes.  In the opinion of the undersigned, he has made such examination or
investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to
whether or not all conditions precedent provided in the Indenture relating to
the establishment, authentication and delivery of a series of Securities under
the Indenture, designated as the Notes in this Certificate, have been complied
with.  In the opinion of the undersigned, all such conditions precedent have
been complied with.

          F.   The undersigned Corporate Secretary, by execution of this
Certificate, hereby certifies the actions taken by a Pricing Committee of the
Board of Directors of the Company in determining and setting the specific terms
of the Notes, and hereby further certifies that attached hereto as Exhibits A, B
and C, respectively, are the form of Global Security representing the Notes as
duly approved by a Pricing Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company, a
copy of resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company on
June 24, 1991 and a copy of resolutions duly adopted by a Pricing Committee of
the Board of Directors as of May 6, 1993, pursuant to which the terms of the
Notes set forth above have been established.

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto executed this
Certificate as of the 13th day of May, 1993.



                                        ______________________________
                                        Alan B. Sellers
                                        Executive Vice President
                                         and Corporate Secretary
                              

                                        ______________________________
                                        David B. Cooper, Jr.
                                        Treasurer