Like wild fire, commercial tomato cultivation has taken roots in Delta to the extent that its farmers claim that they have the capacity to crash market prices and push the near total dependence on supplies from Northern Nigeria into the dustbin of history in no distant future.
Around markets in Asaba, the state capital and environs, a significant proportion of fresh tomatoes supplies are now sourced from a rapid growing league of local growers who are expanding cultivated farmlands by every harvest.
At the 2015 World Food Day which was marked with a food fair in Asaba, stakeholders had close assessment of the progress so far gained by the local tomato farmers as a team showcased its harvest.