In a bid to meet the demand of its tomatoes-processing plants
in Kano State, northern Nigeria, Dangote Farms have started a pilot
hybrid tomatoes production in the state.
This detail was disclosed on Friday by the Managing Director of the company, Alhaji Abdulhamid Kaita, at the end of a two-day stakeholders’ forum on tomatoes value chain in Kano.
According to Kaita, the Farms, belonging to the richest African man, Aliko Dangote, has also introduced the hybrid seedlings to farmers.
He informed that the farmers, however, insisted that the seedlings be tried by the company’s farm before they could patronise it.
Kaita also noted that the company had begun a pilot project at Kadawa area of the state during this year’s rainy season and would 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.
Alhaji Aliko Dangote tops the ‘Africa’s 50 Richest’ list compiled by Forbes this week.
This detail was disclosed on Friday by the Managing Director of the company, Alhaji Abdulhamid Kaita, at the end of a two-day stakeholders’ forum on tomatoes value chain in Kano.
According to Kaita, the Farms, belonging to the richest African man, Aliko Dangote, has also introduced the hybrid seedlings to farmers.
He informed that the farmers, however, insisted that the seedlings be tried by the company’s farm before they could patronise it.
Kaita also noted that the company had begun a pilot project at Kadawa area of the state during this year’s rainy season and would 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.
Tomatoes trader in Kano city.
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.
Alhaji Aliko Dangote tops the ‘Africa’s 50 Richest’ list compiled by Forbes this week.
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