CRI researches into improving tomato production in Ghana

The Crops Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has undertaken field research to improve on tomato production at Domfete, in the Berekum West Municipality of the Bono Region. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as part of his two-day working visit to the Bono Region, inaugurated a GH¢16 million WEDDI Africa Tomato Processing Factory and Farms at Domfete in the Municipality, under the government’s One-District-One-Factory (1D1F) programme. The research work, according to Dr Michael Kwabena Osei, a Senior Research Scientist and Vegetable Breeder at the CRI, would enable farmers and tomato out-growers in general to cultivate quality seeds to feed the factory. It is in line with the CSIR-CRI ‘vegetable seed system’ project being implemented with support from “Worldveg”, an international collaborator, with funding from the UKAID, aimed at testing and identifying quality tomato seeds to cut down importation. The Berekum West District ...