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Secretary appointed a high administrative-official as the ReruRee Officer
to take charge of relief activities throughout the province. The village
relief comnittees were comnitted to uniform and equitable distribution of
relief supplies in all parts of Biafra,
Following is a report on the number, location, and population of refugee
camps and feeding centers in Biafra as of January 4, 1969:
Province Number of Population Feeding People Fed
beat ion camps of Camps Centers at Feeding
Centers
Aba
Abakliki
Amnang
Awka
0ji River
okigwi
Chitsha
Orlu
Owerri
Umuahia
Vyo
ESnergency Food Program Inside Biafra
Early in the emergency, Bikfrans used self-help measures in the battle
against malnutrition. At the instigation of the Rehabilitation C ~ssion
the people planted beans, ground-nuts and vegetables where they lived and
in school farms, These foods played an important part in reducing incidence
of malnutrition. The people also ate grasshoppers and other exotic sources
of protein, as they have in other periods of food shortages in and outside
Biafra.
QI January 17, 1969, General Ojukwu launched an hergency Food Production
Proppun called the Land Army, The program was aimed at mobilizing all
available resources in Biaf'ra for increased food productim and elimination
of malnutrition and death by starvation, Although relief organizatians
were airlifting needed protein foods into the enclave, by January IfSby,
aiafra was also threatened by a shortage of staple and bulky carbohydrate
foods. The Ehergency Food Production Program was established to increase
food production of these kinds of food over a two-year period by bringing
new land into cultivation and encouraging or requiring farming and gardening
by the following: (a) individuals and family units; (b) cammities and
cooperate societies; (c) a land anrly of men and women mobilized for food
production only; ( d) governmental' and quasi-govenunental food producing
agencies; (e) institutions, organizations, and various Christian missions.