tomatoes retailer in Nyanya market, said he has stopped retailing tomatoes for some days due to low patronage.
He said customers were not “patronising him because of the high cost.”
Mrs Rukkaya Umar, Chief Executive Officer, Abraks Farm Produce Nigeria Limited, said the major reason for scarcity of tomatoes was high cost of fertiliser.
According to her, many tomato farmers do not grow it because they cannot afford fertiliser, adding that fertiliser was critical to its growth.
Umar also said reliance on seasonal farming was one of the reasons for the scarcity, adding that it was tomatoes off-season.
“Most farmers in Nigeria still do seasonal farming and that is contributing greatly to scarcity of farm produce particularly in their off-seasons,” she said.
NAN reports that a sizeable basket of tomatoes which hitherto sold for about N10,000 now sells for about N35,000 while big baskets cost more.
Credit: Daily trust
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