Nigeria’s Biggest Tomato Facility Idle Again as Farmers Dump Crop
- Low yields and the onset of rainy season disrupts operations
- Nigeria is Africa’s third-largest importer of tomato paste
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Nigeria’s biggest tomato plant is counting on the government’s restriction of food imports to sustain operations after going idle again six months after it resumed operations from an almost three-year shut down.
When Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, decided to set up the plant, it was with the clear goal of supplanting imports of tomato paste mostly from China but that has suffered setbacks.