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THE Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDZ) has allocated $9 million towards the establishment of tomato processing plants in Esigodini and Norton through a partnership with Schweppes Limited. The project will see the rural development authority putting into use a multi-million dollar tomato processing equipment that has been lying idle for several years. ARDA board

Erisco Foods Limited, with a capacity to produce 450,000 tonnes of tomato paste, is Africa’s largest and fourth in the world, according to its owners. It will locally produce tomatoes as raw material and promises to create thousands of jobs for Nigerians as long as the Federal Government supports and protects the $150 million plant.

Deal not signed, but company says it wants to increase order of Canadian-grown tomatoes. It appears The French’s Food Company’s expansion into ketchup production is a hit with consumers. The company is looking to increase its order of tomato paste at Highbury Canco to about three million kilograms, three and a half times more than

ALSAT has recently approved a new investment for 2.016 season targeting two main objectives: – The installation of a pre-evaporator with MRS (Mechanical Re-compression of the Steam). This new equipment will allow the production of low concentrated products as well as to improve the efficiency of the existing evaporators, reducing the energy consumption and CO2

The days of cheap tinned tomatoes are over, with the federal government backing a decision to slap anti-dumping measures on two Italian giants that account for half of imported tinned tomatoes in Australia. The Anti-Dumping Commission found exporters La Doria and Feger di Gerardo Ferraioli guilty of dumping – selling product for less than they

AUSTRALIA’S largest tomato harvest kicked off near Echuca last week. Kagome Australia — the nation’s largest tomato proc­essor — began harvesting crops last Monday. Teams of four workers oper­ate in three eight-hour shifts, ensuring 24-hour harvesting and processing, and will continue until early April, by which time Kagome will have harvested 250,000 tonnes of tomatoes

The Santorini’s Tomato Industrial Museum is set inside the stone shell of one of the Greek island’s former tomato-processing plants. Santorini’s famous cherry tomato (also called Tomataki Santorini) is ­thicker-skinned, sweeter, deeper red and larger than garden-variety cherry tomatoes, looking a little like a flattened heirloom tomato. It’s said that its taste comes from the