{"id":25563,"date":"2016-05-25T02:13:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T02:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigeria-s-kaduna-state-declares-tomato-emergency\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T02:13:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T02:13:04","slug":"nigeria-s-kaduna-state-declares-tomato-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigeria-s-kaduna-state-declares-tomato-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Kaduna state declares &#8216;tomato emergency&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A state of emergency has been declared in the tomato sector in Kaduna state, northern Nigeria, local media report.}<\/p>\n<p>A moth called the Tomato Leaf Miner, or Tuta Absoluta, has ravaged 80% of tomato farms, Commissioner of Agriculture Daniel Manzo Maigar said.<\/p>\n<p>He said 200 farmers together lost at least 1bn naira ($5.1m; \u00a33.5m) over the past month.<br \/>\nThe price of a basket of tomatoes has increased from $1.20 less than three months ago to more than $40 today.<\/p>\n<p>In Nigeria, officials declare a state of emergency to indicate they are taking drastic action to deal with a problem, the BBC&#8217;s Muhammad Kabir Muhammad says.<\/p>\n<p>In this case the state sent government agricultural officials to Kenya to meet experts on the Tomato Leaf Miner to learn how to deal with the pest.<\/p>\n<p>Kaduna is in the north of the country, where according to the UN most tomato production takes place.<\/p>\n<p>A tomato paste manufacturing business in northern Kano state owned by Africa&#8217;s richest man, Aliko Dangote, suspended production earlier in the month due to the lack of tomatoes, reports Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>Tomatoes are a basic part of most Nigerians&#8217; diets and the word tomato has trended on Twitter as people discuss the rising price.<br \/>\nOne of the memes being shared is a tongue-in-cheek look at Nigerian pain over discovering the annual festival in Spain where people throw tomatoes at each other.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12420 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_89781566_tomatoesgettyimages-474972876.jpg\" alt=\"The richest man in Africa has stopped making tomato paste\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A state of emergency has been declared in the tomato sector in Kaduna state, northern Nigeria, local media report.} A moth called the Tomato Leaf Miner, or Tuta Absoluta, has ravaged 80% of tomato farms, Commissioner of Agriculture Daniel Manzo Maigar said. He said 200 farmers together lost at least 1bn naira ($5.1m; \u00a33.5m) over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25563"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25563"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}