A heat wave attacks the tomato crop in southern Upper Egypt

The early heat wave attacked vast areas of late crops in central and southern Upper Egypt, such as tomatoes, which led to the outbreak of unprecedented epidemic diseases such as tunnel borers and what is popularly called “the weevil,” which devours the roots of plants, and the various control mechanisms are unable to eliminate them because they thrive and live underground. the earth . Mohamed Selim, a farmer from Luxor, confirmed that he planted two acres of tomatoes at the beginning of last January, but the massive heat wave that multiplied in the southern desert backside led to the complete destruction of his crops. He added that there are a number of insect diseases that coincide with heat and heat, such as tunnel diggers, weevils, and others, which lead to the death of plants. The price of tomatoes rose during the last period to 250 pounds per tomato instead of 60 pounds recently, before falling again to 120 pounds now. Hussein Abdel Rahman Abu Saddam, head of the Farmers ...