Go and ask Nigerian industries how they secure supply of their raw materials and inputs.

You don't have to comment always on issues you don't understand.

Backward integration is crucial.

I am also a processor and I must secure my inputs by participating in production https://twitter.com/damoche/status/1312346972305661952

There are many ways to do this.

She can bring in hybrid suckers if they aren't available

She has been in business for over half a decade.

What would it cost to partner with farms to produce her needs?

Why must she buy from cotonou?

Is that her home?

Her own states of akwa ibom and cross river are huge growers of pineapples

What stops her from working with local farmers to produce her needs cheaply?

My brother there's no excuse please.

But as always she can continue to enrich customs officers in order to push her narrative