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FMN to promote food competition with N3m star prize

Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc fmn

Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc fmn

Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc (FMN), Nigeria’s leading integrated food and agro-allied group and owners of the iconic food brand, ‘Golden Penny,’ has announced the commencement of its social impact campaign to encourage and foster innovation within the food systems in the country.

The campaign, which is tagged: “FMN Prize for Innovation,” is designed to inspire and revitalize food production in the country and ultimately contribute to attaining the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goal. According to FMN, each year, the prize will focus on a different element of the food value chain to generate new and imaginative ways of thinking and encourage novel solutions to established problems. It stated that from the 8th of December 2021, operators within the food systems, including all activities in the value chain that covers feeding and nourishing people, from growing, harvesting, packaging, processing, transporting, and marketing, can be sending in their applications for the prize with the prospects of winning the star prize of N3 million.

The Director of Group Strategy & Stakeholder Relations, Sadiq Usman, commented: “A significant number of the challenges facing the food systems in Nigeria today, including low productivity due to damaged crops, limited access to agricultural value chains, and food loss or wastage, can be solved by creative thinking and the right investment in innovation. And that is where companies like ours come in.

“The prize for innovation is another way of demonstrating FMN’s commitment to enriching lives and empowering commitment by investing in not just the development of the food value chain but in capacity development and access to resources.” The FMN stated further in the release that Chief Executive Officer and founder of Tomato Jos Farming and Processing Limited, Mira Mehta; Chief Executive Officer, Fate Foundation, Adenike Adeyemi; whose company is renowned for enabling aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs in Nigeria; a private equity investment advisor, Mezuo O. Nwuneli; and Director of Strategy & Stakeholder Relationship for Flour Mills, Sadiq Usman; would judge the FMN Prize for innovation.

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