Nigeria’s Dangote Tomato Factory resumes tomato paste production

The tomato processing plant possessed by Africa’s most extravagant man Aliko Dangote has continued its activities in Kano State, Nigeria. The activity of Africa’s biggest tomato processing plant ceased two years back because of an absence of crude materials.

It situated in Kano State yet in the wake of running for a year and five months the tomato plant halted activities. The stoppage of activity was mostly brought about by a debate with the ranchers.

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According to reports, the factory, with a capacity for 1,200 metric tons of tomato paste daily which is targeted at meeting domestic demand, restarted production last week. It processed about 100 tons a day and will ramp up output as tomato supply improves.

“Our major challenge is the scarcity of the tomato that would be sufficient for our daily production,” Kaita said in an interview at the factory in Kadawa, outside the northern city of Kano.

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“The local tomato growers could not meet our production demand; we also could not agree with the farmers on the price of tomato per basket,” he added.

The plant owned by Aliko Dangote has a concurrence with the ranchers to purchase their tomatoes at the value that local people sell from the ranchers. The plant is likewise creating neighborhood ranches tomato strain that could yield 60tons per hectare contrasted with the one being delivered by ranchers at 10 tones for every hectare.

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