NIGERIA RECORDS N1.3 BILLION LOSS IN TOMATO FARMING DUE TO TOMATO EBOLA
Barely a year after announcing the outbreak of Tuta absoluta, commonly known as the tomato leaf miner or ‘Tomato Ebola,’ the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, revealed on Wednesday that the disease destroyed over N1.3bn worth of tomatoes. The economic loss recorded in Kano, Katsina and Kaduna States was revealed at the…