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Nigeria: pest turns staple food into luxury

Jan-Philipp ScholzJune 13, 2016

A small insect known as the tomato leafminer has infested large swathes of the tomato crop in Nigeria. In some rural areas, the moth has already destroyed 80 percent of the crop. But Nigerian scientists have been able to track down the vermin.

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