‘Tomato leaf miner a serious threat to local crop’
Feb 11, 2022
2 minutes
– Lindi Botha
Tomato crops across South Africa are being decimated by tomato leaf miner (Tuta absoluta), as the pest shows increasing resistance to crop protection chemicals.
Crop losses are widespread, and smallholder farmers in particular have been hard hit.
Dr Gerhard Verdoorn, operations
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