Okechukwu Enelamah, minister of industry, trade and investment, says the new federal government tomato policy will stop the importation of tomato paste. Speaking during a visit to GB Foods Nigeria’s tomato backward integration project in Kaduna, the minister assured that the government is committed to boosting tomato production.
During an earlier visit to Dangote Tomato Processing Plant, Audu Ogbeh, the minister of agriculture and rural development, had expressed the government’s willingness to ban tomato paste importation. In a bid to diversify the economy and boost local production, the federal government had restricted the importation of rice while the Central Bank of Nigeria restricted forex for the importation of 43 items including fertilizer, textiles and toothpicks.
