The Federal Government has taken steps to end the importation of processed tomato paste and puree into the country.

Recently the Staple Crop Processing Zone Development (SCPZ) team of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) visited the 1,200 metric ton capacity Dangote Tomato processing factory in Kano State.

Leader of the FG team to Dangote factory, Dr Niyi Odunlami, said the improved status of the processing plant is intended to increase dependence on locally made products rather than dependence on imported ones.

Odunlami said “This started even in the days of high oil revenue, as the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, worked towards meeting the huge, local and regional demand for processed foods, conserving foreign exchange, boosting food security, improving on nutrition for Nigerians, creating wealth for Nigerian farmers and developing rural economic space.”

While commenting on the partnership between Dangote Farms and the Ministry, he said “It is needless to begin to say the obvious on the transformation potentials of what Dangote Farms has done here today, for local farmers, for local youth and for the nation’s economy.

“We developed the SCPZ Programme to identify major agricultural production clusters, like the Kadawa-Bunkure axis and to designate and appoint a delimited zone for attracting private sector investments into modern processing of locally produced crops, livestock, fisheries and related agribusiness activities.”

http://www.metronaija.com/2015/02/fg-set-to-end-importation-of-processed.html

Do we have the factory here in nigeria.?

I guess the agricultural section for that is ready for the challenges.A welcome development

Korrection:
Do we have the factory here in nigeria.?

Nah we don't ODESON

Igbayi laaro.....if truly u wnt Nigeria 2 b gr8, stop d importation of any product in Nigeria and lets go local....dat's the system used and now they have the biggest economy in the world.

Wow...somebody must be working and doing so much to make this country better,Agric is thw new sexy.Never would i have thought that a day will come that young men would gladly resign their office jobs just to go into farming this shows growth and development by the current government in this sector.kudos

Good, we're becoming economically matured now

Good news for fuel importers. Since the government has failed to provide us with constant electricity, factories will have to purchase more diesel and fuel to generate their own electricity and at the end of the day average Nigerians will have to pay more for made in Nigeria goods because of high cost of production just like MTN, DSTV have been doing.

Nice one

jethro shld get ready to drive her factory customised lamborgini or private jet.
ehen, it will surely get to dt level.

mercylicious:
jethro shld get ready to drive her factory customised lamborgini or private jet.
ehen, it will surely get to dt level.

My sister. You are welcome to join me oo. Lets plant to buy the rides. Enough tomato planting to sustain the industry. Seeing a big market for tomato here.