Fresh tomato consumers are gradually switching to pastes on account of a ravaging disease known as ‘Tuta Absoluta’, which has forced prices of tomatoes to increase by 135 percent.
A big basket of tomato, which went for N17, 000 a month ago is now sold for N40, 000. The increase in price has for
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JOSEPHINE OKOJIE
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