Nigerian
government spent about $1 billion on importation of tomato paste according to
UNEP.
The African
Regional Coordinator of United Nations Environmental Programme UNEP, Dr. Richard
Munang, made the revelation, at the weekend.
Richard
Munang during the official inauguration of the Nigeria branch of
Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Food Security Assembly, EBAFOSA, also noted that
over 75 per cent of tomatoes were wasted in the country because of lack of
storage facilities.
He expressed
regrets that about 240 million people in the continent go to bed hungry and
that malnutrition was high, affecting nearly 200 million people which in turn
resulted in the death of over 50 per cent of children below five years.
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