Tomato embargo hits farmers hard

Local tomato producers have begun to bear the brunt of the recent restrictions imposed on tomatoes by the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food Security, the Botswana Horticulture Council has revealed.

The restrictions came following the detection of tomato leaf miner or Tuta absoluta, which is described as a highly destructive insect pest to tomato plants and fruit and is also reported to infest other plants in the Solanacaeae family such as potato, pepper and eggplant.

As a result of the ban, traders are not allowed to move solanaceous crops from the tomato leaf miner infested areas, which are Bobirwa, Boteti, Chobe, North East, and North West.

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