La Tomatina takes place in the town
of Buñol which is near Valencia in eastern Spain.
At the annual fiesta, 175 tonnes of ripe tomatoes are offloaded
from seven trucks into the crowd packing the streets for an hour-long battle.
The tomato fight leaves the
participants and the town's streets awash with red pulp. The town is hosed down
minutes after the event ends at noon, while participants can use public
showers.
The paid-entry event was inspired by
a food fight between local children in 1945 in the tomato-producing region.
As this is bean celebrated in spain,
getting tomatoes a big problem to the extent it was tagged tomato ebola which trended on twitter for hours on Wednesday. A state of emergency has been declared in the tomato sector in Kaduna
state, in the north of the country and farmers are said to have lost up to 80%
of their tomato crop.
Nigeria's Minister
of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, said that his office had
commissioned experts to look at the issue as "ordinary pesticides cannot
tackle the disease because the tomato moth multiplies so fast.
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