The potential of Nigeria in agriculture is limitless.

We just find it difficult to make that sharp turn to where we were coming from.

It's allowed.....since no one wants to dedicate him/her self to farming......

Cutehector:
Nigerian comments sef

To show u d masses are really daft.

Badt guy

Since our minister has already said its better to import than do it here, so y we all stressing ourselves

starwar:
Julie this is Monday morning na

darling wetin do Monday morning

AceRoyal:
This is just the their normal way when they are up to something not good.
1. Cry that the government is spending so much on tomato paste even when we know that Nigeria produces so much tomatoes.
2. Say "we are probing the issue" just to be seen as been effective.
3.Give Dangote the exclusive right to be the sole producer of tomato paste while effectively killing competition with unfavourable government policies.
4. We get to find out much later that despite giving him monopoly over the production of tomato paste,Nigeria is still spending so much more on importation.

I'm not hating on the government,but instead of dishing out just figures,pls kindly tell us what measures you have put in place or will put in place, to curb this negative economic trend effectively.

Can't they encourage and empower SME's effectively?with all the tomatoes that get rotten and spoilt all around the markets in Nigeria due to lack of processing facilities.

Did you bother to read the story?

One nigeria is obviously a failure, waste of time.

Lol... This is for the gullible..

They want us to be on their side so tomato importation will be stopped, then they'll create a scarcity and we'll have no option that to use dangote's black tomato paste.

dustydee:
Did you bother to read the story?

Yes........

aminho:
Dangote to the rescue and later some Igbos wull shout monopoly

The richers getting richest, the cost of production in Nigeria is so high that only the might can open industry. The government should do something. Even NNPC admitted that is cheaper to production petroleum outside the country.

Cutehector:
Nigerian comments sef

To show u d masses are really daft.

nma24:
Badt guy

hehehehe.
U will b seeing stuffs like

Endtime

Ha

Gbege

U mean am


Buhari

I dey come

Apc

G

Endtime

Etc

AceRoyal:
This is just the their normal way when they are up to something not good.
1. Cry that the government is spending so much on tomato paste even when we know that Nigeria produces so much tomatoes.
2. Say "we are probing the issue" just to be seen as been effective.
3. Stop importation and create artificial scarcity.
4.Give Dangote the exclusive right to be the sole producer of tomato paste while effectively killing competition with unfavourable government policies.
5. We get to find out much later that despite giving him monopoly over the production of tomato paste,Nigeria is still spending so much more on importation.

I'm not hating on the government,but instead of dishing out just figures,pls kindly tell us what measures you have put in place or will put in place, to curb this negative economic trend effectively.

Can't they encourage and empower SME's effectively?with all the tomatoes that get rotten and spoilt all around the markets in Nigeria due to lack of processing facilities.

The report was from UNEP, not FG. Dangote's tomato paste factory is just about to kick off and Govt. does not need to kill competition in favour of Dangote, the market is big enough. No be evrything govt. go do.

VocalWalls:
Lol... This is for the gullible..

They want us to be on their side so tomato importation will be stopped, then they'll create a scarcity and we'll have no option that to use dangote's black tomato paste.

We had better start to trying to use our own products, that is the only way for our local industry to grow. Don't expect Dangote to produce tomato paste better than De Rica or Gino, it could take some time for him to accomplish that.. There is also Erisco Tomato paste made in the east. There is a sacrifice we the citizens need to pay too.

mediang:



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/nigeria-spends-1bn-import-tomato-paste-unep/

Which kind of news is this? $1 billion on tomato monthly? Annually? Quarterly? Come on! The information is so vague.

Where are not just ready, was in umuahia to discuss this with the governor but allall they are interested in is federal allocation and how they are going to share it . How muchmuch will it cost all this our looters to bring in cottage industries from China to produce tomato paste, a beg, they prefer to buy guns , cars for their concubines and rent big hotels for years on ending , then when Donald trump says the black man is only good for three things, sex, eating and looting we call him racist .

JaaizTech:
The report was from UNEP, not FG. Dangote's tomato paste factory is just about to kick off and Govt. does not need to kill competition in favour of Dangote, the market is big enough. No be evrything govt. go do.

Actually he's right. A lot of people don't know what Dangote does to kill his competitiors' business. He owns the government and buys their decision-making in order to monopolise certain industries, then buys the influence of BOI and other relevant bodies just so that they harass your business and make it hard for you to find investors or produce enough to attract major investors. Just ask people in cement, sugar and salt and fertilizer industries. The day someone breaks Dangote's monopoly, the number of jobs will quadruple in 6 months because all those companies he's frustrating in his quest to become a Oligarch will grow and start hiring.

He wants to do the same for tomato processing. There are other companies who are already in it but guess who will dominate them all? It's mostly foreign companies with deep pockets who will be able to fend off his attacks and Nigerians will still be where they are: in perpetual servitude between Dangote and some Westerner group of companies or a Lebanese/Indian family. If you think I'm lying, look at the Pasta market and sugar market, who's producing everything: Dangote and some foreigners.

People who know and have had dealings with him, dislike him. His ambitiousness leaves no room for healthy competition. If only we could boycott his products and hurt him as he's hurting the average Nigerian looking for a job.

Cutehector:
hehehehe.
U will b seeing stuffs like

Endtime

Ha

Gbege

U mean am


Buhari

I dey come

Apc

G

Endtime

Etc

hehheeheheehheheheehe.. Well, I think we need to stop importing products that we can produce locally. A cessation of tomato paste importation will actually monopolise that market for dangote unless we have other Nigerians stepping up to compete in the tomato market.Hope I made common sense

nma24:
hehheeheheehheheheehe.. Well, I think we need to stop importing products that we can produce locally. A cessation of tomato paste importation will actually monopolise that market for dangote unless we have other Nigerians stepping up to compete in the tomato market.Hope I made common sense

oh yes u did.. can I have ur number?

brownjulie:
darling wetin do Monday morning

You dey book space wey u suppose put up for sale

Not this administration alone but past and present government

benedictnsi:
importing I part of the hobbies of this administration

JaaizTech:


We had better start to trying to use our own products, that is the only way for our local industry to grow. Don't expect Dangote to produce tomato paste better than De Rica or Gino, it could take some time for him to accomplish that.. There is also Erisco Tomato paste made in the east. There is a sacrifice we the citizens need to pay too.

we should promote our own, but not through a dubious means and telling lies. Yesterday there was a thread that dangote sent about 800 nigerians to india, when in reality, they were just about 70 persons.

Make products that can compete, and we will come for it.

Vongsama:
Over $1billion? From when to when? Nonsense report.

hehehehe........ Don't mind them!


Over $1 billion??

starwar:
You dey book space wey u suppose put up for sale

its called investment, will put it up for sale later,or u wan buy?

munchi:
.tomato paste....


while lands are wasting at kano

na oil money our governors focus on!

It is true. I know it already ...that was my business plan for the last youwin which buhari discontinue. My plan was MINI PEPPER AND TOMATO PASTE PRODUCTION AND PACKAGING.

brownjulie:
its called investment, will put it up for sale later,or u wan buy?

hope that wouldn't be too expensive?....how are u this Monday morning?

So many or almost all things are wrong with Nigeria and almost all Nigerians. Like government like her people, like the pastors like their followers, as the lecturers are so also are the students and so on. And I have not seen any serious plan or determination from either the government or the people to bring any serious change or development to Nigeria. So let the people wake or is it that it is almost all Nigerians that are wicked so that wickedness is blinding us; our eyes and hearts, from seeing and thinking good thoughts and plans and then implementing them to bring good change.

Jezzzzzz no wonder nigeria is first target market in africa

While land are wasting in Kano................what is your effort to become a successive farmer of tomatoes

munchi:
.tomato paste....


while lands are wasting at kano

gabbyabbey:
While land are wasting in Kano................what is your effort to become a successive farmer of tomatoes

sorry m a fish farmer.....

tomatoes on my mind

JaaizTech:


We had better start to trying to use our own products, that is the only way for our local industry to grow. Don't expect Dangote to produce tomato paste better than De Rica or Gino, it could take some time for him to accomplish that.. There is also Erisco Tomato paste made in the east. There is a sacrifice we the citizens need to pay too.

you dont play patriotism when it comes to what you put in your mouth... furthermore, let them be honest, instead of these little gimmicks