Dr. Abayomi Olaniyan, Executive Director of the National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) has advised tomato farmers in the country to ensure that they plant tomato seeds that are pest and disease resistant in order to curb the annual scarcity experienced during the raining season.
Olaniyan in a telephone interview with a correspondent from Independent.org while reacting to the scarcity and increment in prices of tomatoes said that constant rainfall always reduces the availability of fresh tomato as the crop does not thrive during the wet season because it builds up pest and diseases.
He also said that tomatoes thrive better during the dry season.