Tomato Shortage

There is a shortage of tomatoes in Nigeria and this has led to rising
prices and now it has affected production of tomato paste.
The newly established Dangote Tomato Processing
Factory in Kadawa, Kano State, has suspended production, its
Managing Director, Abdulkadir Kaita, said.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Friday
that the company, which commenced production in February, had
stopped production due to the lack of raw materials.
He said that the company found it necessary to suspend production
because there was no fresh tomatoes to process.
He added that most of the tomato farms in Kano, Jigawa, Plateau,
Katsina and Kaduna states were affected by a pest popularly known
as “Tuta Absoluta” which killed all the tomato species there