Federal Govt. To Ban Importation Of Tomato Paste

Ogbeh said a report by the National Agency for Food and Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says foreign tomato pastes imported into Nigeria are not good.
He stated this during the oversight visit of the House of Representatives Committee on Agricultural Production and Services, chaired by Rep Mohammed Tahyor Monguno (APC, Borno) to the ministry in Abuja on Monday, November 28.
Members of the committee asked the minister to explain the measures government is taking to avert
food crisis next year in view of the influx of foreigners buying Nigerian grains.
Responding, Ogbeh said: “It’s time to fill our silos. Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that Nigerians can now buy a bag of local rice for as low as N8,000 as against N22,000 obtainable with foreign rice. The apex bank said it’s Anchor Borrowers Programme for the promotion of agriculture has set the country to begin exportation of rice by 2017.
“The Chinese are the ones
messing us up on tomato paste. Each
time Dangote tries to produce, they
lower their prices. There’s a report by
NAFDAC on the quality of foreign
tomato pastes. The report is very bad.
“We think we have every reason in
that report to ban foreign tomato
pastes into the country. If you don’t
ban it on health ground, you have to
ban it on any other ground.”

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