Founder of Tomato Jos, Mira Mehta, Executive Secretary KADIPA Umma Aboki, US Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard, CBN Godwin Emefiele, Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai and Deputy Speaker Kaduna State House of Assembly, Hon. Yusuf Zailani at the groundbreaking event of Tomato Jos tomato processing factoryNasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, on Monday hosted the groundbreaking ceremony for the tomato processing factory of Tomato Jos.
Mira Mehta, founder and chief executive of Tomato Jos, said that her company intends to invest N10.25bn over five years in its farming, processing and marketing activities. Mr El-Rufai said the ceremony was the second groundbreaking event in 10 days for an agriculture-related investment in the state. “The Kaduna State Government welcomes this latest investment in the agricultural potentials of our state. Olam showed the way back in 2017 when President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the hatchery and feed mill project that this multinational sited in our Chikun Local Government Area.”
The governor said the state welcomes the combination of primary production and industrial capacity that Tomato Jos investment signifies.