Tomato Glut Hits Katsina Markets As Price Drop To N300 From N5,000 Per Basket

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Tomato Glut Hits Katsina Markets As Price Drop To N300 From N5,000 Per Basket

Farmers and merchants oftomatoinKatsinaState are seriously affected by glut of the produce in recent weeks, forcing its price to crash with few buyers in sight.Although its perishable nature and lack of processing industries usually maketomatofarmers experience glut at leastonce in a year, this year seems to be theworst, according to the farmers.Hamza Tsalha, atomatofarmer in Mairuwa, Faskari local government area, said the situation is very disturbing as they are recording loses daily in the past three weeks.

We are really in a sorry state going by what is happening intomatomarkets inrecent weeks. Many of us have converted the proceeds of our rainy season farming to irrigation and now we lost everything.

Ourtomatois fresh and healthy this year as we recorded no pest attack but the problem is the glut which makes its price to drop to N300 from N5, 000 per big basket,” said Hamza.