The Corporate Farmers
International Limited (CFIL), in collaboration with the International Institute
of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is pioneering the first Agribusiness and
Agro-tainment Reality TV show in Nigeria and Africa titled CORPORATE FARMERS
REALITY TV SHOW. The Reality TV show would take place within the premises of
IITA in Q4 of 2016.
The program is aimed at
promoting and attracting Nigerian youth to agriculture.
This concept was developed
by Corporate Farmers International Limited collaboration with IITA — one of the
world’s leading research partners in finding solutions for hunger,
malnutrition, and poverty based in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria— to showcase
opportunities for business and research as well as solutions to the challenges
in agriculture, while providing information and knowledge sharing opportunities
in agriculture and agribusiness in an entertaining form. The IITA Youth
Agripreneurs (IYA) based in IITA, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, is the host and
technical partner in the project.
The event will select 20
contestants within the 6 geo-political zones through an audition. Contestants
will compete with each other on various agricultural enterprises for a period
of six weeks in a farm house. At the end of the show, only one winner will
emerge as the Corporate Farmer who will be Nigeria’s first Agriculture
Ambassador that has gone through training and passed the eviction process in
the first season.
This Reality TV show
promises to attract viewers of all ages and spur active participation of
potential stakeholders through investments generation for increased involvement
in agribusiness.
Using various media
(television, radio, magazines, and social media), we will deliver world-class
'agro-tainment' through a Reality TV show, documentaries, and news programming.
We will engage a media partner with a strong coverage in disseminating
information, and through the show, create a passion for agriculture that would
aid the youth in going into farming as a worthwhile business activity. The
ultimate goal is to create employment and promote urban-rural migration, with
investment for and in agribusiness in the rural areas.
This project aims to
influence Nigerians to see agriculture beyond food as we take them on a journey
that provides a window of opportunity on agricultural business and areas of
investment. We want to encourage both the public and private sector to invest
in agriculture and to see it in terms of five pillars: BUSINESS, ENERGY,
EDUCATION, FINANCE, and HEALTH.
We urge both the Government
and Private Sector to support this initiative to help secure the future of
Nigerian and African youths and help bring down the unemployment rate in the country;
because if Nigeria succeeds, the rest of Africa will succeed
visit
www.corporatefarmers.tv for more info.
Nigeria need this too much import food and products not good for the country
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