{"id":25820,"date":"2016-06-04T00:05:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T00:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigerians-discover-pesticide-for-tomato-killing\/"},"modified":"2016-06-04T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T00:05:06","slug":"nigerians-discover-pesticide-for-tomato-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigerians-discover-pesticide-for-tomato-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians discover pesticide for tomato-killing moths"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Nigerian researchers say they have found a pesticide capable of killing a species of moth that has ravaged the country’s tomato crop.}<\/p>\n

The Tomato Leaf Miner moth has destroyed 80% of tomato farms in Kaduna state, in the north of the country.<\/p>\n

Other states, particularly in the north, have been badly hit too and farmers have lost millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

The price of a basket of tomatoes has soared from $1.20 (\u00a30.80) less than three months ago to more than $40.<\/p>\n

Now Nigeria’s National Research Institute for Chemical Technology says it has found a solution – a pesticide which will kill off the moth.<\/p>\n

But farmers affected by the moth will have to wait as the new pesticide is not commercially available yet.<\/p>\n

Tomatoes are a basic part of most Nigerians’ diets and officials in Kaduna state declared a state of emergency in May as the price of tomatoes rocketed.<\/p>\n

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{Nigerian researchers say they have found a pesticide capable of killing a species of moth that has ravaged the country’s tomato crop.} The Tomato Leaf Miner moth has destroyed 80% of tomato farms in Kaduna state, in the north of the country. Other states, particularly in the north, have been badly hit too and farmers […]<\/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-25820","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\/25820","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=25820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25820"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25820"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}