GBFOODS COMPLETES ₦20 BILLION TOMATO PROCESSING FACTORY IN KEBBI

Multinational culinary product manufacturer GBfoods has commissioned the recently completed tomato processing factory in northwestern Nigeria, the company said Monday. The ₦20 billion plant, located in Kebbi State, was built in partnership with the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kebbi State…

An agro-processing venture trying to fix Nigeria’s tomato waste problem has raised $4.2 million

There’s a top-line statistic on tomato farming in Nigeria which captures the state of the sector: around 45% of harvested tomatoes go to waste in Africa’s most populous country. That reality is down to a mix of fundamental infrastructural gaps including inefficient…