Nigerians love tomatoes and tomato paste is a staple in both sauces and stews on the Nigerian dinner table. According to reports, Nigerians spend more than 300-million US dollars on tomato paste annually.
Nigeria wants to increase its production, to do that, the country is teaming up with private enterprise.
Nigeria is the second largest producer of tomatoes in Africa – harvesting about one-point-five million tons annually. But the government says some 45-percent of Nigeria’s crop never makes it to market because farmers lack the resources to process and transport their tomatoes.
A new tomato processing plant could help Nigeria increase production and cut its tomato imports by about one-third.
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