Dangote To Begins Hybrid Tomatoes Production In Kano

 

The Managing Director of Dangote Farms, Alhaji Abdulhamid Kaita disclosed that the farm would start the production of hybrid tomatoes in Kano to meet the demand of its tomatoes processing plants in the state.

Kaita who spoke to newsmen at a two-day stakeholders’ forum on tomatoes value chain in Kano that the company had also introduced the hybrid seedlings to farmers.

The farmers who were skeptical in using the seedlings told the company to use the seedlings first so they can see the outcome of it before they can start to patronize it.

Kaita noted that the company had begun a pilot project at Kadawa area of the state during this year’s rainy season and was about to begin the second phase of the project in the dry farming season.

“The yield produced before is about 10 tones per hectare, while the hybrid seedling varieties introduced will produce 80 to 100 tones per hectare using the best practices,” Kaita said.

Also speaking at the event which had several stakeholders such as Federal and State Ministries of Agriculture, development partners and insurance companies in attendance, Mr Richard Ogundele commended Dangote Farms for the initiative.

Ogundele expressed optimism that Dangote Farms would reap the benefit of the forum as many problems were brought for discussion.

It was gathered, through Vanguard report, that Dangote Farms collaborated with the World Bank to conduct the meeting on tomatoes.