Home Tomato leaf miner: Pongola farmers’ strategy to beat the pest Sakkie Terblanche (left) and his brother André run the family farm.

Sakkie Terblanche (left) and his brother André run the family farm.

Sakkie Terblanche (left) and his brother André run the family farm.

On the Basaki Boerdery farm, tomatoes are rotated with sugar cane.
The Tuta absoluta larvae burrow their way into the leaves of the tomato plant.

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