Dangote opens Africa's largest tomato factory in Kano

Nigerian born Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote, has established a tomato factory in Nigeria with a view to help tackle unemployment and even indirectly combat Boko Haram
Nigeria is such a huge market for tomato paste that we will find quite challenging to satisfy," the factory's general manager, Abdulkarim Kaita, told AFP.
Already local tomato paste packaging companies have placed orders with us which we will have to work hard to satisfy.

We are set to begin operations. We are only waiting for the tomatoes which are ripening in the fields.
Nigeria grows some 1.5 million tonnes of tomatoes every year, making it the 14th biggest producer in the world.
But it's forced to rely on imports of tomato puree, mostly from China, because of a lack of processing plants.
Dangote's factory, built by Switzerland-based Syngenta, will directly employ 120 people and 50,000 farmers have been engaged to grow the tomatoes required for the process of making concentrate.