Dangote
Farms have started a pilot hybrid tomatoes production in Kano to meet the
demand of it’s tomatoes processing plants in the state, its Managing Director,
Alhaji Abdulhamid Kaita, disclosed on Friday.
Kaita
told newsmen at the end of a two-day stakeholders’ forum on tomatoes value
chain in Kano that the company had also introduced the hybrid seedlings to
farmers.
He
said the farmers, however, insisted that the seedlings be tried by the
company’s farm before they could patronise it.
He
noted that
