Excitement As Dangote Opens Tomato Processing Plant In Kano

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Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has kicked off his tomato processing factory in Kadawa, Kano State.

The new plant is aimed at making canned tomato paste easily available and affordable for Nigerians, who have to rely on the ones produced from China.

The factory, brought to life through Dangote Farms Limited, is located along the expressway into Kano City.

It has a 1200Mt daily capacity of fresh tomatoes conversion into 200Mt of paste.

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Aproko247 gathered that GEMS4, the agency serving as intermediary between the farmers and Dangote Farms, through it Intervention Manager, Richard Ogundele, says about 40 trucks of 30Mt of fresh tomatoes would be bought daily from local farmers, thereby boosting the country’s economy and enriching the farmers.

From the analysis, 70,000 farmers in two weeks representing one production cycle will benefit from this start up operation.

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GEMS4 linked the Tomato Growers Association of Nigeria, TOGAN, to the factory and signed an MoU to guarantee supply to the factory.

It also did a national cluster mapping of tomato production locations and based on this report, has linked clusters in four states out of the 12 sampled comprising of 45750 farmers to both Ikara tomato plant and Dangote combined.

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While Ikara is up taking 45Mt daily now and producing 4.5Mt of tomato paste, Dangote will increase output with installed capacity of 200Mt of paste. Both Ikara and Dangote will be trying to reduce the import bill of $360 million annually spent on bringing in tomato paste from China.

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