date:Feb 23, 2017
After the discovery of a destructive pest known as the tomato potato miner at a Perth farm, Eastern States banned the import of produce from Western Australia in order to quarantine the problem.
With the Federal agriculture officials in Canberra alerting overseas trading partners, growers and exporters fear foreign markets could be lost.
The State Agriculture Department has placed at least one Perth farm in quarantine. The Department of Agriculture raised the alert last week after the tomato p