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Friday, December 2, 2016
Tomatoes our wasted resource.
Nigeria's characteristic inability to meet its local demand for specific agricultural items may seem evident in tomato, whereby despite the country's position as the 14th largest producer in the world (accounting for 10.79 per cent of Africa's production and 1.2 per cent of total world production), it used imported tomato paste worth US$ 360 million.
Nigeria produces more than enough tomatoes but 45% of what is produced is lost through post harvest losses,such as poor handling techniques, lack of adequate storage facilities , transportation coupled with bad roads and tortuous distance to markets.
This shows the major production areas in the country,you can picture how the state of the produce when it arrives to the south-west area. Adequate training on handling,storage and transportation will help prevent losses and ensure more tomatoes are exchanged for cash.
Post harvest losses can be prevented by proper handling and storage, the use of returnable plastic crates come into play here. The plastics are of global standards,they improve post harvest losses and boost earnings for fresh produce. The plastics aside from being colorful,are 1) hygienic. 2)prevent fruit damage and puncture 3)improve fruit ventilation 4) prevent fruit compression.
How to use crates to ensure produce is fresh from farm to table. 1) harvest produce 2) sort and clean produce 3) load into crates 4) transport in cooling trucks. Want to invest in tomato production? then think of how to shorten the farm to market curve and how to ensure freshness of produce. #transport #cooling trucks #returnable plastic crates #training #out growers scheme. more
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