Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN) Prize for Innovation 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 16, 2026

Applications are open for the Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN) Prize for Innovation 2026. The FMN Prize for Innovation is a social influence initiative established by Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc (FMN) to encourage new concepts in meals manufacturing, innovation, and engineering, and the way these can allow a sustainable meals system in Nigeria.

Every yr, the prize will deal with an essential side of the meals worth chain that we imagine is crucial to reworking and sustainable growth of the nation’s meals techniques. This yr, the FMN Prize for Innovation (FMN PFI) is trying for massive concepts, expertise-powered options, and easy but ingenious Innovative practices in Cassava Production and Processing in Nigeria. The competitors is cut up into two classes.

Prizes

• Category 1: Successful candidates on this class can be invited to pitch their concepts in entrance of dwell judges who will award the winner the prize of N5 million, N3 million, and N2 million for the primary and second runner-up.
• Category 2: Successful candidates on this class will win: N700,000 (Seven Hundred Thousand Naira Only) for the first Prize, N500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira Only) for the 2nd Prize, and N300,000 (Three hundred thousand Naira Only) for the third Prize.

Eligibility

Open to Nigerian MSMEs and Nigerian college students in undergraduate and postgraduate ranges.

• Category 1: For registered Nigerian SMEs within the Food and Agro-Aillied Sector
• Category 2: For college students with revolutionary concepts to rework Cassava Processing and Production in Nigeria.

Application

For extra info, go to FMN Prize for Innovation.