Nigeria produces millions of tonnes of fresh tomatoes annually, yet much of the crop goes to waste for lack of processing capacity.
Meanwhile, the country imports roughly 400,000–520,000 tonnes of processed tomato paste each year, costing hundreds of millions of dollars. That gap between farm output and factory capacity is the investment opportunity.
Market size & trajectory
The domestic tomato-concentrate and paste market is growing. Estimates put the local tomato concentrate market at low single-digit millions of
