Monday, 8 August 2016

Do You Know that this is the Insect that deprived you of tomato for a long time


This Insect is called "Tuta Absoluta" also known as Tomato Leaf  Miner says Daniel Manzo Maigari Kadunna State Commissioner for Agriculture.
The moth attacks the Leaves and its larvae feeds plants and cause a 100% loss in yield. no amount of pesticides have proved to kill the larvae. sunshinenews.com.
Nigeria researchers have been working tirelessly to curb this menace and it looks like there is finally a breakthrough. They claim to have found a pesticide capable of killing a specie of the crop ravaging moth, but it's availability has not yet been commercialized.

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