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The Oyo State government is set to explore opportunities in greenhouse technology to enhance tomato production in the state, the Director-General of the Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency and Executive Adviser on Agribusiness to Governor Seyi Makinde, Dr. Debo Akande, has said.

Akande made this known on Friday during a visit to Makinde by a Dutch delegation led by the Consul-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Nigeria, Mr. Michel Deelen.

According to Akande, the governor had already given a marching order for the initiative, which aims to establish about 50 greenhouses for tomato production in the state to complement the efforts of smallholder farmers cultivating in open fields.

These remarks were contained in a release issued on Friday by the Special Adviser (Media) to the Oyo State Governor, Dr. Sulaimon Olanrewaju, and made available to journalists in Ibadan, the state capital.

The OYSADA DG stated that the Netherlands delegation was ready to collaborate with Oyo State on tomato production. He also noted that the state had made significant strides in the agriculture value chain, particularly in cassava production.

He further explained that following Makinde’s recent trip to Ethiopia, where he addressed the African Business Forum, the state was also focusing on soya bean production. He added that the Netherlands delegation’s visit would provide Oyo State with an opportunity to expand tomato production on a large scale.

Akande said, “This is probably going to be the best thing that will happen to our state in recent times; the evolution that is happening in the agribusiness sector.

“What we have now is that Oyo State is working on a diverse value-chain where we are working strongly on cassava. We are good at that. We also have the marching order to start working on soya beans because of what we came up with in our meeting in Ethiopia and the African Business Forum.

“We are already developing an accelerated system around soya bean transformation. Now, the next opportunity that is coming is about horticulture and this is speaking to tomatoes.

“It is not as if we have not been doing something about tomatoes, but we have not done enough. So, this visit by the Dutch government to His Excellency is providing the opportunity for us to accelerate and expand on what we are doing on tomatoes.

“We all know what happened during the COVID-19 pandemic when there was a gap between demand and supply from the South to the North over tomatoes and we don’t want that to happen again.

“The second thing is that we always know the volatility in terms of pricing tomatoes at a particular season in the year when it becomes so expensive, and at a point, there is excess. That should not be happening at all. We should have tomatoes all year at a reasonable price.

“People who have mastered tomato production in the world are the Israelis and the Dutch. Today, we have the Netherlands and we are willing to learn how they have done it, because they have a massive production of tomatoes.

“What they have done is to invest in greenhouses and they use greenhouses in the country because of their temperature, which could be cold and hot. Here, we can use greenhouses because we have demonstrated their use through a private sector company at the Oyo State Transformation Centre at Fasola and we have seen that the greenhouse technology works.

“That company has produced tomatoes via greenhouse technology and it has been supplying to markets in the state but that is not enough. If we are talking about production for consumption within the state, we need to accelerate.

“The partnership with the Dutch government is going to help us accelerate. This is why the governor has given us a marching order. He wants to see about 50 of these greenhouses producing tomatoes in our state to complement what our smallholder farmers are doing in the open field.

“The Dutch government is going to support, while the Oyo State government will continue to provide an enabling environment and the right facilities for this to grow.”

Speaking earlier, the Consul-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Deelen, stated that the delegation that visited Governor Makinde was on a trade mission, which included about 15 Dutch companies specializing in seeds, horticulture, and greenhouse technology.

He said that the visit was to discuss the role of government and explore how they could collaborate with the Oyo State Government to boost horticulture production.

He said, “We brought people from Westland, and other people from the horticulture sector, to exchange information and see how together we can make sure that production of horticulture products increases in Oyo State.

“We felt there is a huge demand in the South-West, not just Ibadan or Lagos. Lagos does not have the landmass to produce all that but Oyo State has.

“The ordinary person on the street tends to gain different things from this partnership if he is interested in horticulture or getting a job in that sector, because it is also about job creation.

“On the other hand, if the average person on the street is a consumer, he will see that the quality of tomatoes and other farm products in the market will increase and that could be visible.”

Similarly, Agricultural Counsellor at the Consulate-General Office, Inge Tenniglo, stated that the Dutch government was willing to collaborate with Nigeria to enhance both the quality and quantity of tomato production.

In the same vein, Senior Manager, International and Economic Affairs, Ima Meijer, noted that the Dutch government believes in sustainable food production and considers greenhouse technology as one of the key ways to achieve it.

Source: https://punchng.com/oyo-netherlands-collaborate-on-tomato-production/#google_vignette

Amazing development

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Good development

Very good news on Eid.

The only type of news I want to be seeing

Great move. Oyo state has fertile land for farming. Researchers need to work on our farming yield such as ,corn, millet, cassava etc it's very poor compared to many other places.

Can Oyo indigenes even afford a sachet tomatoe?

White men are no fools. I wonder why we are happy about this news. They are here to enrich themselves.

They invested in Dangote refinery. Everyone was happy a private refinery was coming on board due to massive investment. Is the fuel cheap now? Only your tears increased.

Don't think Tomatoes will be cheaper when they come. Una fit no fit afford am. They will just be exporting it to their country to make life better there.

How many times have you heard that Nigerian government went to a country to partner with them to boost their own local production?

No way. They have reasonable government that won't sit and allow a foreign country come and take up what belongs to them.

Our leaders are too daft. Yet this country has a lot of resources.

Oyo is venturing into agriculture not today things…

SensualMan:
Can Oyo indigenes even afford a sachet tomatoe?

Why do we need satchet tomatoes when we can have access to fresh ones thats even cheaper

Carry your fake satchet tomatoes to your people ,Oyo state people don't need it

blingxx:
The only type of news I want to be seeing

if you know how happy I am with the news ehn...... I wish other states can key into such!

muykem:
Great move. Oyo state has fertile land for farming. Researchers need to work on our farming yield such as ,corn, millet, cassava etc it's very poor compared to many other places.

How much do we pay researchers now compared with public office holders like Makinde, to make it worthwhile for anyone to aspire for the hard work of researchers?

What was the wage gap between researchers and politicians in the first Republic before five indisciplined soldiers scattered everything and opened the door for military dictators like Obasanjo and Buhari who were later recycled into civilian, democratic presidents?

In any case, if we are not expecting Makinde and other governors to use our commonwealth to employ and pay teachers well for the free education of all children in public schools, then how do you expect us to have well paid researchers

anonimi:
Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner
September 4, 2022

The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.

The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/ratio-of-public-to-private-schools-in-lagos-state-is-one-to-22-%E2%80%95-commissioner/

Difrent:
Why do we need satchet tomatoes when we can have access to fresh ones thats even cheaper

Carry your fake satchet tomatoes to your people ,Oyo state people don't need it

If we can’t get fresh tomatoes all year round, then how do you get tomatoes to cook when they are not in season?

Is it better to process the extra tomatoes into paste and use them in the off season

Inspirer1:
if you know how happy I am with the news ehn...... I wish other states can key into such!

Why should other states key into farming instead of more productive factories

That's great feat. It will boost the economy of the state.

Here to go good 👍 one

Nice one.... 2mrw when IGR reports comut.... Some people go dey shout say na lie....

Our beloved brothers from south-west wan take their business to another level,
As in
Then wan take the game outside country,
Both skulls o
Kidney oo,
Infact with this new strategy,nothing will be wasted

SensualMan:
Can Oyo indigenes even afford a sachet tomatoe?

Iya e ni o le afford e

SensualMan:
Can Oyo indigenes even afford a sachet tomatoe?

children of hate and bitterness…..it’s too early in the day to be bitter Oyo state is far richer and more developed than all your 5plot of cursed barren land put together numbers don’t lie nwokem cursed economic migrants.

That's how Plateau State government mismanaged ASTC set-up by Israelis🤦.

Billions of naira can't accounted for in the past 10yrs☹️

Northerners, shey Una dey see? We go soon strip you nakked for market square

SensualMan:
Can Oyo indigenes even afford a sachet tomatoe?

Can your parents afford a sachet of water?

Risingblue008:
Our beloved brothers from south-west wan take their business to another level,
As in
Then wan take the game outside country,
Both skulls o
Kidney oo,
Infact with this new strategy,nothing will be wasted

Yes, and yours are next in line. Once your brothers use fake medicines to kee you, next is for us to mine the carcass

Checkwell:
White men are no fools. I wonder why we are happy about this news. They are here to enrich themselves.

They invested in Dangote refinery. Everyone was happy a private refinery was coming on board due to massive investment. Is the fuel cheap now? Only your tears increased.

Don't think Tomatoes will be cheaper when they come. Una fit no fit afford am. They will just be exporting it to their country to make life better there.

How many times have you heard that Nigerian government went to a country to partner with them to boost their own local production?

No way. They have reasonable government that won't sit and allow a foreign country come and take up what belongs to them.

Our leaders are too daft. Yet this country has a lot of resources.

Yesso and the black man is once again foolishly Allowing the westerners (white man) milk from the resources of the black man.

Who swear for Africa? 😩🫡😡😠😠

Even to plant ordinary tomatoes the black man still need the white man to teach him in this 2025

Ojemedad:
Even to plant ordinary tomatoes the black man still need the white man to teach him in this 2025

E tire me.

But we fit make Shenuebo, KokoSamba, Adopa, Kick-and-start, and other sexual enhancers

muykem:
Great move. Oyo state has fertile land for farming. Researchers need to work on our farming yield such as ,corn, millet, cassava etc it's very poor compared to many other places.

Oyo State should be Feeding the Whole Nigeria,just like Niger State,but Makinde has no time for that but what we see is Playing Politics with Religion( Sharia- Panel 'and ALGON - by frustrating the Supreme Court Judgement on the Implementation of Local government having Seperate Account-in Oyo State.
He is just fledging to the the above- na by Mouth 😺.

Checkwell:
White men are no fools. I wonder why we are happy about this news. They are here to enrich themselves.

They invested in Dangote refinery. Everyone was happy a private refinery was coming on board due to massive investment. Is the fuel cheap now? Only your tears increased.

Don't think Tomatoes will be cheaper when they come. Una fit no fit afford am. They will just be exporting it to their country to make life better there.

How many times have you heard that Nigerian government went to a country to partner with them to boost their own local production?

No way. They have reasonable government that won't sit and allow a foreign country come and take up what belongs to them.

Our leaders are too daft. Yet this country has a lot of resources.

I love you for this.... You're among the few that think outside the box on issues as these...oyibo nor be fool o... Them sabi exploit Africans...

Julius berger is a foreign construction company getting contracts on a steady here and making huge bucks, do we have any indigenous Nigerian company doing road construction in any foreign country?

We better wise up