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Agp 121 3 2022
Agp 121 3 2022
Introduction
• Tomato value chain has potentials for food security, income,
and employment generations for millions of people in
Nigeria
• Nigeria is currently the largest producer of fresh tomato in
sub-Saharan Africa, the second largest producer in Africa,
(producing 10.8% of fresh tomatoes in the region) and the
14th largest producer in the world
• Over the last decade, the production of
fresh tomatoes in Nigeria has grown by 25% from 1.8 million
tonnes to an estimated 2.3 million tonnes
Introduction cont’d
•Northwest geopolitical zone is the leading
producer, while Jigawa is the leading
producing state
•Sadly, 40% of this suffer post harvest losses
due to lack of knowledge of value chain
•There are opportunities for both export and
expanding local market
Actors in tomato value chain and activities
Tomato value chain in the country is short and fairly
complex
There are four main actors in tomato value chain
The actors are: Farmers, fresh tomato marketers,
processors, and processed tomato marketers
Farmers
Consumers
Fresh tomato
marketers
Input suppliers
Farmers
Processors
Research Institutes
Policy
makers
Financial service Marketers of processed
providers tomato
Constraints at the production node
• Lack of credit facilities
• Limited availability & accessibility to high yielding and resistant
varieties
• Pests and diseases contributing to low production and productivity
• Lack of reliable and established markets e.g non-establishment of
contract farming
• Limited extension & research resulting in post-harvest losses
• Poor organized functional farming associations
• Lack of implementation of some policy documents
• Theft
Constraints at fresh tomato marketing node
• Lack of credit facilities
• Poor infrastructure e.g road network and electricity
• Seasonality in supply of fresh tomato fruits
• High market levies
• Fruits are highly perishable
Constraints at the processing node
• High cost of processing technologies and non availability of
locally produced processing and storage technologies
• Lack of credit facilities
• Poor infrastructure e.g road network, water supply and
electricity
• Lack of training
• Seasonality in supply of raw materials
• Lack of quality standards for fresh fruits