King44:
left for me the bother should be permanently closed till we are 95% self sufficient

TissuePaper:
Where is the picture of the farm?

When will bloggers in this country have sense

able20:

They probably hid the pictures for security reasons, North is very hot nowadays.

King44:
left for me the border should be permanently closed till we are 95% self sufficient how I wish I am already the man I want to be omo see chance to begin dominate economy for life but it is quite unfortunate that some still don't see anything good about the policy later one business man would come out to say there is monopoly chance dey ground now to also take part u dey look

madenigga:
Nice one. I wonder the reason why the north is spear heading Nigeria's agriculture, despite all the land wasting down south, can't most if these governors harness it for agriculture?

madenigga:
Nice one. I wonder the reason why the north is spear heading Nigeria's agriculture, despite all the land wasting down south, can't most if these governors harness it for agriculture?

maasoap:


Honestly speaking, I clicked on this thread because I wanted to look at the pictures of the facilities. It is a shame!

TissuePaper:
Where is the picture of the farm?

When will bloggers in this country have sense

madenigga:
Nice one. I wonder the reason why the north is spear heading Nigeria's agriculture, despite all the land wasting down south, can't most if these governors harness it for agriculture?

may320:
Greenhouse produces genetically breeded tomatoes/food items. I hope they wouldn't kee people finish with this non-natural fertilized food items. This is just my personal opinion.
I wish to read comments from those who are versed in this greenhouse operations to learn more.

Asnafsaeed:
I forgot to add the pictures

martowskin1:


Also wonder why they keep running to the south to feed their cow

Asnafsaeed:
The multi-billion High–Tech Greenhouse Farm established by Dangote Farms Limited, geared at boosting the cultivation of high-quality tomatoes in the country, has commenced full production in the commercial city of Kano.


The farm which is fully automated is the first of its kind in West Africa and is expected to transform the economy of the local tomato farmers, as the technology is expected to up their harvest from the current 10 tons per acre to as much as 40 tons.

Abdulkarim Kaita, managing director of the Dangote Tomatoes Company Processing Limited, confirmed this, on Thursday, during the visit of senior officials of the Kano Office of Central Bank of Nigeria to the farm.

Speaking to BusinessDay on the sidelines of the visit, Kaita disclosed that his company `s new investment in the farm is motivated by the quest to help Nigeria stop the over $350 million that is expended on the importation of fresh and processed tomatoes yearly.

He said his company had so far, injected over #3 billion in the development of the farm, which in the next three weeks, is expected to deliver high-quality tomato seedlings to tomato farmers across the 12 states of the Federation where the commodity is heavily cultivated.

“The management of the Dangote Farms, which is a subsidiary of Dangote Tomatoes Company Processing Limited is excited to reveal the tremendous effort that we are making to ensure that Nigeria becomes self –sufficient in tomato production.

“The planting medium you are looking at is called PAT MOOSE which has the capacity of producing 350 million seedlings per season that can be used to plant an estimate 12,000 hectares of tomato farm.

“We are glad to disclose that we are the first to bring this new technology into the country and this is going to fast track the yield of our tomato farmers tremendously.

“The project is being executed under the CBN `s Tomato Anchor-Borrowers Programme. The CBN will be paying for the seedling that we cultivating, and it will be distributed to farmers.

“The PAT MOOSE process you are seeing takes 3 weeks, after which it goes to the next stage, and the whole process of growing the tomato takes just three months” he explained.

Giving further insight into the value addition which the Greenhouse farm would provide, Kaita, noted that the introduction of the technology will put an end to post-harvest losses, as well as increase the volume of the harvest of the commodity.

In the same vein, he added that the introduction of the technology would lead to the expansion of production of the commodity, beyond the over 2.5 million tons of current consumer demand.

“Based on the study under the GEMS project, Nigeria has 171,000 hectares of land for tomato production, and if you multiply this with it the over 40 tons which the technology is capable of producing per hectare that means can grow our production to around 8 million tons.

“With this in the next two years, if Government effects the ban of the importation of commodity, just as it has been done in the case of rice, Nigeria will soon become a net exporter of the commodity.

https://businessday.ng/companies/article/dangotes-multi-billion-naira-greenhouse-farm-goes-into-full-operations-in-kano/

VillageElder:
Pictures please

madenigga:
Nice one. I wonder the reason why the north is spear heading Nigeria's agriculture, despite all the land wasting down south, can't most if these governors harness it for agriculture?

madenigga:
Nice one. I wonder the reason why the north is spear heading Nigeria's agriculture, despite all the land wasting down south, can't most if these governors harness it for agriculture?

maasoap:


There was one thread last week about the border closure and we ended up discussing Dangote and cement, some dudes were accusing him being monopolistic in nature. I challenged them if Dangote prevent any other rich or wealthy Nigeria from investing in manufacturing sector, they couldn't say anything.
I told them about his failed tomato paste company that had shut operation twice in the past due to absence of raw tomatoes to feed the company. That was to show them that not all Dangote businesses venturing succeed, the man is just relentless. I didn't even know that he had already taken this step to ensure continous supply of tomato fruit from the farmers. You know what one idiot said, he called me one of his employees. Lol

Commentor:


That's their stock in trade on this forum.

The minute you beat them with facts and logic you are instantly labelled BMC or Afonja or one on the payroll of whatever you lend your support towards.

Primitive minds.

Sirpaul:
Can Dangote buy Nigeria pls

Commentor:
They want me to clap without pictures.

maasoap:


There was one thread last week about the border closure and we ended up discussing Dangote and cement, some dudes were accusing him being monopolistic in nature. I challenged them if Dangote prevent any other rich or wealthy Nigeria from investing in manufacturing sector, they couldn't say anything.
I told them about his failed tomato paste company that had shut operation twice in the past due to absence of raw tomatoes to feed the company. That was to show them that not all Dangote businesses venturing succeed, the man is just relentless. I didn't even know that he had already taken this step to ensure continous supply of tomato fruit from the farmers. You know what one idiot said, he called me one of his employees. Lol