In pursuit of health and convenience nowadays, people pay more attention to the health concept for tomatoes, which are not only delicious and nutritious but also of high pharmaceutical value, and the industry chain will also extend from the upstream initial processing to downstream high value-added industry.

At present, the tomato planting area is comparatively fixed throughout the world; however, due to the climate and policies, foreign tomato production capacity does not have an optimistic growth trend. On the contrary, by virtue of the advantaged natural condition, China's tomato output and its proportion to the world's total have been increasing rapidly year by year. It's safe to say that China has become the largest exporter of bulk packed tomato paste. 

Proportion of Tomato Output in the World by Region, 2006

China's Tomato Output and its Proportion to the World, 1995-2007

Considering from the market demand, the Euro-America market will experience a comparatively steady growth, whereas the newly-rising markets such as Asia, Africa and Russia will witness a sharp rise in consumption. China, as a newly-emerging ketchup consumption market, along with the popularization of foreign snack and Western-style food, the consumption will also be remarkably increased.

The unbalanced supply and demand has brought about development opportunities to China's tomato processing industry. With high-quality raw materials and cost advantage, price hike caused by unbalanced supply and demand will benefit China to a large extent; meanwhile, the extension of the industry chain will also enable China's tomato processing enterprises to gain higher added value.  

2 Supply of tomato processing industry 
2.1 Limited regions to produce high-quality tomatoes with unoptimistic output growth
2.2 China to become the new growth region of global tomato industry 
2.3 China is the largest exporter of large packaging tomato ketchup 
 
3 Variation in demand level of tomato processing industry to bring about development opportunities 
3.1 Europe and America to maintain a stable demand, variation in policies to bring output transfer
3.2 Consumption of Asia, Africa and Russia to be heightened 
3.3 Eating habit of Chinese people to cause a vigorous domestic demand 
3.4 New demand brought by high-end products 
3.5 China tomato processing to face development opportunities

4 Main Companies 
4.1 Xinjiang Chalkis Co., Ltd. 
4.2 COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd. 
4.3 Xinjiang Tianye Co., Ltd.