Nigeria: Tomato farmers predict produce scarcity over Tuta Absoluta outbreak — Africa Links 24

Tomato growers have expressed concern over the recent Tuta Absoluta virus infestation of the crops currently affecting the price of the produce in the various markets across the country.
They expressed their concerns in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.

NAN reports that Tuta Absoluta also known as Tomato Leaf miner is well known as a serious pest of tomato crops in Europe, Africa, western Asia and South and Central America, with larvae causing up…