ShitHead:
If the APC government has decided to import common grass from Brazil; na tomatoes be the problem? Them no go hear aaaa! One Chance Government!

The "grass" being imported is actually grass seedlings of more than 28% crude protein content than available locally, the plan is to introduce them to farmers for planting, Audu Ogbe debunked that weeks ago.

Spent on tomato importations.

munchi:
.tomato paste....


while lands are wasting at kano

I wonder.

Currently, Nigeria produces lots of tomato and onions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccToysUTcg4

80% of tomato paste imported into Nigeria is contaminated — Audu Ogbeh

Nigeria's minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has divulged that eighty percent of the tomato paste imported into the country is unhealthy for consumption.

Ogbeh made his assertion on Thursday during the 2017 budget defence session before the Senate and House of Represenative lawmakers.

The minister said his revelation had backing from a report by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), adding that some harmful ingredients and heavy metals constituted these toxins being referenced.

He added that the continued consumption of these contaminated tomatoes was the underlying cause of diseases such as kidney failure and liver dysfunction.

He further reiterated government's commitment to end importation of all food types and rather encourage local production of everything Nigerians consume.

On the other hand, the minister came under heavy criticisms by the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development for lopsidedness in the Ministry’s 2017 Budget.

Out of N92 Billion proposed for the entire Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Agric Ministry alone has a whooping sum of 72 billion while a paltry N20 Billion was meant for agencies and Parastatals.

Reacting to the development, a member of the Committee, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi stressed that the Ministry has obviously hijacked responsibilities of its Parastatals, noting that the situation would make those agencies to underperform.

“Honourable Minister, by allocating larger part of the budget to yourself alone, means the Ministry has hijacked responsibilities of its agencies and Parastatals, which I think is very unfortunate,” Sabi said.

“Over the years, we have not been doing things rightly and why can’t we try to get it right this time?, ” he queried

Sabi emphasized that agencies under Agriculture Ministry have been weakened except the budget was completely reconfigured to capture some of their critical responsibilities.

”By the virtue of this budget, Institutions within the Federal Ministry of Agriculture have been weakened.”

“I know you have field and regional offices, but by virtue of of this budget, agencies under your ministry cannot be supportive of desire of government to provide food security which is an element of affordability and availability,” he emphasized.

Meanwhile, the minister has assured the Senate that their observation would be taken into consideration.
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