ABUJA — THE United Nations
Environmental Programme, UNEP, has lamented that the Nigerian government spent
about $1 billion on importation of tomato paste.
The African Regional
Coordinator of UNEP, Dr. Richard Munang, who made the revelation, weekend, 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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