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World Service,2 mins

An option for Nigeria's tomato crisis?

Newsday

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Nigeria is facing an agricultural emergency. The moth Tuta Absoluta has attacked one of the country's staple foods, causing tomato prices to soar. Scientists have found a pesticide that can kill the insect that carries the disease but some farmers believe pesticides could do more harm than good. As the Âé¶¹Éç's Stephanie Hegarty reports from Lagos, they may have found another solution in the "snake tomato". (Photo: Tomato soup with cream in the shape of the map of Nigeria. Credit: Thinkstock)

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