IPOB DOS Urges Ndị Biafra to Return to Farming for Food Security and Economic Freedom

Published on the Biafra post

April 28, 2026

A Call to Our People: Return to the Farm, Secure Our Future

The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) wishes to remind our people that our greatest strength has always come from the soil beneath our feet. For generations, farming sustained our families, strengthened our communities, and preserved our dignity.

Today, we call on every son and daughter of Biafra to return to farming.

Food security is true freedom. When we grow what we eat, no external force can hold our people hostage through hunger, scarcity, or rising food prices. Our land is fertile, and our people are hardworking, creative, and resilient. From cassava to yam, rice to vegetables, palm produce to fish farming, poultry, cattle, and our native goat breeds, we possess the capacity to feed ourselves and create lasting wealth through agriculture.

We therefore urge our people to revive farm cooperatives and community agricultural initiatives. We call on philanthropists who often distribute relief materials to redirect part of such efforts toward empowering our youths through farming support, tools, seedlings, training, and access to land.

Let us reclaim abandoned farmlands. Let every household plant something. Let Town Union leaderships and Ndị Eze organize market days that prioritize local produce. Let us restore farming as a noble source of pride, prosperity, and self-reliance.

The future of Biafra will not be built on empty stomachs. It will be built by our hands, on our land, for our children.

Go back to farming.

The time is now.

Signed:

Dr. C. Okadigbo

DOS Press Secretary