Cassava Changemakers Pitch Competition 2025 (up to N5 million in prizes) – YOA

Deadline: June 25, 2025

Applications are invited for the Cassava Changemakers Pitch Competition 2025. In celebration of World Cassava Day 2025, they invite passionate younger innovators to take part in the Cassava Change-Makers Pitch Competition — a platform to showcase daring, unique concepts with the potential to remodel the cassava worth chain.

The theme for the 2025 competitors is Youth-Led Innovations for a Sustainable Cassava Future. This competitors is an OPPORTUNITY to acquire nationwide recognition, funding, and enterprise growth assist on your impactful concepts. This initiative is proudly sponsored by Agbeyewa Farms.

Focus Areas

• Production improvements that enhance yield and cut back labor necessities.
• Technologies that enhance effectivity, cut back vitality consumption and allow new product growth.
• Market options that join worth chain actors and construct client consciousness and demand.

Prizes

• 1st Place: ₦2,000,000 + Business Development Support
• 2nd Place: ₦1,000,000 + Business Development Support
• third Place: ₦800,000 + Business Development Support
• 4th Place: ₦700,000 + Business Development Support
• fifth Place: ₦500,000 + Business Development Support

Eligibility

• Open to Nigerian youth aged between 18-35 years.
• Finalists have to be out there to attend the World Cassava Day occasion in Abuja on June 28 to pitch dwell if chosen.
• Submission have to be your personal innovation and centered on fixing actual challenges in Nigeria’s cassava worth chain based mostly on its actuality.
• They are searching for sensible, scalable, and know-how-pushed options, in addition to culturally and neighborhood-based mostly improvements, that may unlock the complete potential of cassava for individuals, revenue, and the planet.

Application

• Detail your idea to a 5-slide pitch deck together with background, downside assertion, answer & implementation technique, ask and anticipated outcomes.
• Introduce your self and pitch your thought in a brief, clear video. Upload and share the hyperlink along with your application.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Nigeria Cassava Innovation Pitch.