Ghana: ‘Leafy curls’ outbreak on tomatoes in Agotime-Ziope District
The disease renders the tomato plants unproductive at the flowering stage as the plants wither and turn brown. During a tour of some of the affected farms, the Agotime –Ziope District Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), Mr Noah Adomina, said the disease could be traced to a sporadic attack on farms some years back.
He recalled that some research scientists from the University of Ghana visited the area to understudy the disease and advised the farmers on how to contain its spread at the nursery stage. That, he said, would have prevented the agent from attacking the plant at the nursery stage and prolonged the manifestation stage (to come after the plant had produced).
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