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Who We Are
Despite its contribution to the economy, the Nigerian agricultural sector faces many challenges which impact its productivity. These include; poor land tenure system, low level of irrigation farming, climate change and land degradation. Others are low technology, high production cost and poor distribution of inputs, limited financing, high post-harvest losses and poor access to markets.
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“Mr. & Miss Food Basket Ng” was creatively coined from the slogan of Benue State, Nigeria as food basket of the Nation, and is poised as a platform to strategically address these challenges while creating employment opportunities through a biennial agricultural pageantry event designed to employ the use of strategically developed and deployed systems to find, empower, equip and deploy a focused, determined and dogged team of youthful Agricultural Ambassadors whose mission will be to work strategically on harnessing resources for the sustained development of Agricultural and related capabilities within Nigeria and across Africa, while (re)establishing Benue State as the trustworthy food basket of the Nation from the grassroots, thus creating avenues for increasing the I.G.R. gotten from the Agricultural Industry overtime and empowering more youths and teenagers to shun internet fraud/vices and instead embrace agriculture and related technological entrepreneurial field, thereby catalyzing sustainable investments into the sustained development of the Agricultural Industry and sub-sectors.
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EACH contestant stands the opportunity to access over $5,000 Agricultural grant funds, while the Queen walks away with a cash prize of over #500,000:00, an official car, a brand new motorcycle, and lots more as well as the chance to access over $20,000 Agriculture Grant fund in Nigeria's foremost Agricultural pageantry event which is opened to Nigerian ladies who are passionate about Agriculture and Agricultural development across their local community and Africa as a whole.
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With no religion nor height or body size restrictions, every Nigerian female above the age of 18 has an unprecedented opportunity to be a winner in the maiden edition of what will become Africa's most prestigious Agricultural Pageantry event.
Partnership Opportunities
Partnerships are the bedrock for sustainable development, and such strategic bedrock is made available for well-meaning individuals, groups of people and Organizations to leverage as a partner of the maiden edition of Mr. & Miss Food Basket Ng project towards achieving sustainable development goals
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There are ample opportunities for individuals as well as duly registered private Companies/ Brands, or Governmental/ Non-Governmental Organizations to strategically leverage upon towards meeting specific corporate aims, goals, missions, objectives and visions as a sponsor of the maiden edition of Mr. & Miss Food Basket Ng Agricultural Pageantry Event.
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A few available media benefits include; a strategically designed experiential marketing opportunity during the finalists' 2 weeks empowerment retreat, as well as the finalists' 1-week camping; a complimentary advertisement slot in Mr. & Miss Food Basket Ng Magazine Publication (5,000+ FREE physical copies to be strategically distributed globally within 24 months); branding opportunity on signage & stationary, as well as publicity & promotional materials produced for the project, including on contestants branded tee-shirts/polo (100 pieces to be produced for finalists); on-stage and venue branding, as well as experiential marketing opportunity at the Grand finale venue.