“…This result agrees with the finding of Osei et al (2012) which states that tomato farmers in the middle and northern Ghana wrongly attribute TYLCV disease to high temperature, nutrient deficiency, drought and whitefly (Osei, et al, 2012). Nagaraju et al (2002) also reported that majority of tomato farmers at Karnataka, India, were aware of TYLCV disease and could vividly describe the symptoms but did not know the causes and epidemiology of the viral disease. However, TYLV, transmitted by whitefly, B. tabaci has been associated with tomato yellow leaf curl symptoms on tomatoes in Ghana (Horna et al, 2006;Osei et al, 2008; and worldwide (Lapidot and Friedman 2002;Al-ani et al, 2011;Pan et al, 2012).…”