VHP Priority project 2025
Educative Youth Tomato Nursery
Lelydorp - Domburg - Saramacca
Tomato is one of the most important vegetables globally; widely used in cooking and eaten raw as salad.
Tomatoes provide vitamins, minerals and other nutrients which are known to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.
Certain tomato varieties grow very well in Suriname.
As Suriname is also a tomato importing country, it makes a lot of sense educating the youth of Suriname in growing high quality tomatoes.
The youth in Suriname has many challenges; troubled education, modern unhealthy lifestyle, becoming parents at young age, not a lot work opportunities or sufficient income.
That is why in 2025 we start with an educative youth tomato nursery.