Tomato plants in France’s far-west Finistere region have been contaminated with a destructive virus that can lead to whole crops being wasted, the agriculture ministry said on Monday.
A farm had been isolated and greenhouses full of tomatoes would be destroyed, as there is no known treatment, it said.
The virus, which is not harmful to humans, was first reported in 2014 at greenhouses in Israel before it spread to Europe and America. Growers in Spain and Italy – the EU’s biggest tomato producers – have been affected, as have some in the US and Mexico, and Britain announced its first cases last July.
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