Tomatoes are a staple ingredient in Nigerian cooking.
They're even used to make the country's national dish.
But a moth known as Tuta Absoluta is destroying swathes of tomato fields sending prices soaring 700 percent.
There are tens of millions of farmers in Nigeria. Many living on less than 2 dollars a day.
The Kaduna state is Nigeria's biggest tomato growing region. Farmers there are calling the outbreak their 'tomato Ebola' after the deadly disease.
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They've already lost 80 percent of their crop.
And a national state of emergency has been declared in the region.
