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Anxiety over influx of expired tomato paste

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 7 October 2023 0

20 containers designated for market seized By Temitope Adebayo Palpable fear currently hangs in the air over speculations of influx of expired tomato concentrates in the Nigerian market following the interception of 20 containers of expired products intercepted at the wharf. Nigerian borders

Agriculture

Food security: NIHORT trains 50 on tomato, telfairia value addition

Ihesiulo Grace 19 February 2020 0

The National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) has commenced training of 50 entrepreneurs on tomato and telfaira production and value addition. READ ALSO: Creating food security without youths involvement in agriculture is in vain-Nanono The Chairman, Governing Board of the institute, retired Maj.-Gen. Mohammed, while declaring the training open in Abuja on

Agriculture

Kano tomato farmers urge minister to intervene

Ihesiulo Grace 24 December 2019 0

Kano – Tomato farmers in Kano state have urged the Minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Sabo Nanono to intervene in the crisis bedevilling the distribution of hybrid tomato seedlings to farmers by the Dangote farms under Anchor Borrowers’ programme. ‎Alhaji Sani Danladi-Yadakwari, the chairman of the state chapter of National Tomato Growers, Processors, and Marketers

Agriculture

Dangote gives hybrid tomato seedlings to farmers

Ihesiulo Grace 28 October 2019 0

(Kadawa)Kano – ‎Dangote Farms has flagged off the distribution of hybrid tomato seedlings to tomato farmers under the Central Bank Anchor Borrower Programme. ‎Speaking at the event on Monday at Kadawa, the Managing Director of the company, Abdulkarim Kaita said that they ‎would distribute 6,500 hectares worth of tomato seedlings to farmers before the end […]

Business

Nigeria can survive without importing tomato paste, says Dangote MD

Ihesiulo Grace 16 October 2019 0

Kano – Alhaji Abdulkadi Kaita, the Managing Director, Dangote Tomato Processing Company,  Kano says Nigeria can survive without importing tomato pastes from other countries. Kaita made this known when the executive council members of the Kano Concern Citizens’ Initiative (KCCI) paid a visit to the production site of the company at Kadawa in Garun-Malam Local […]

Business Nigeria

CBN set to boost tomato, cocoa, others in 2018

Ihesiulo Grace 19 January 2018 0

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has expressed willingness to massively support farmers to boost the production of tomato, cocoa and palm oil across the country this year. CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, said this during a visit to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh in Abuja, recently. Emefiele said the move […]