The Effect of Brachiaria Rows on Stemborer Damage on Sorghum

July 24, 2024

Sorghum is mostly known as the world’s fifth-most important cereal crop after rice, wheat, maize, and barley. It is one of the main staple foods for many farmers in Africa, in particular the smallholder farmers. It’s a plant-based protein, high… Continue Reading…

Push-Pull in practice

Mfumo wa kilimo wa vuta-sukuma waimarisha hali ya maisha

July 24, 2024

Discover how you can benefit from push-pull through the comic book.

Push-Pull in practice

Push-pull Curriculum for Farmer Field Schools

July 24, 2024

Push-pull is a knowledge-intensive technology that needs a curriculum designed to guide learning at various entry points of the technology for smallholder farmers.

Push-Pull in practice

Planting for Prosperity Push–Pull: a model for Africa’s green revolution

July 24, 2024

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) is immensely proud of the ‘push–pull’ programme’s achievements.

Push-Pull in practice

Perception of Farmers on Push-Pull Technology: Using Farmers Research Network Approach in Eastern Amhara, Ethiopia

July 24, 2024

Striga and stem borer are the major challenges to sorghum production and causing serious food security problems in Ethiopia.

Push-Pull in practice

Bioactive Volatiles From Push-Pull Companion Crops Repel Fall Armyworm and Attract Its Parasitoids

July 24, 2024

Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, is a serious invasive pest in Africa but “Push-Pull” companion cropping can substantially reduce infestation.

Push-Pull in practice

Upscaling the benefits of the Push-pull technology for sustainable agricultural intensification in East Africa

July 24, 2024

Push–pull is a farming system where a cereal crop is intercropped with the legume desmodium, and the plot is surrounded with Napier or brachiaria grass for control of stemborers, fall armyworm and striga weed.

Push-Pull in practice

Managing the Fall Armyworm Threat Using the Push–Pull Technology

July 24, 2024

Discover how you can benefit from push-pull through the comic book.

Push-Pull in practice

Push-pull improving livelihoods

July 23, 2024

Discover how you can benefit from push-pull through the comic book.

Pest/disease control

The push-pull intercrop Desmodium does not repel, but intercepts and kills pests

July 23, 2024

Over two decades ago, scientists developed a push-pull intercropping strategy that received critical acclaim for synergizing food security with ecosystem resilience in smallholder farming.

The Effect of Brachiaria Rows on Stemborer Damage on Sorghum

Mfumo wa kilimo wa vuta-sukuma waimarisha hali ya maisha

Push-pull Curriculum for Farmer Field Schools

Planting for Prosperity Push–Pull: a model for Africa’s green revolution

Perception of Farmers on Push-Pull Technology: Using Farmers Research Network Approach in Eastern Amhara, Ethiopia

Bioactive Volatiles From Push-Pull Companion Crops Repel Fall Armyworm and Attract Its Parasitoids

Upscaling the benefits of the Push-pull technology for sustainable agricultural intensification in East Africa

Managing the Fall Armyworm Threat Using the Push–Pull Technology

Push-pull improving livelihoods

The push-pull intercrop Desmodium does not repel, but intercepts and kills pests

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