The Kano State House of Assembly has raised the alarm over a Tuta Absoluta pest outbreak ravaging tomato farms across ten local government areas, threatening to deepen Nigeria’s already severe tomato shortage and push prices even higher
A 50kg basket of tomatoes that sold for N35,000 last month now costs up to N125,000 in Lagos markets, as the harvest season ends across northern Nigeria and transport costs hit N2 million per trailer, TOPAN warns.
