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Tomato leaves and crop residues

Waste reduction

Large amounts of tomato crop residues are produced: the use of these residues as animal fodder is a way to reduce them. They can be used for soil amendment or compost. There have been experiments aiming at using tomato crop residues as soil amendment to fight bacterial wilt from Ralstonia solanacearum in tomato crops (Zanon et al., 2011).