Push-Pull in practice

Mtalaa huu wa Sukuma·Vuta kwa shule za mafunzo ya kilimo shambani (FFS) ni hatua kubwa katika kuingiza teknolojia ya Sukuma-Vuta katika mifumo ya utoaji ushauri kwa kilimo Afrika mashariki na kusini.

Push-Pull in practice

One of the sustainable intensifications approaches to improving yields of maize, a major staple and cash crop in eastern Africa, is the push-pull system, a companion cropping system that involves intercropping maize with a forage legume (desmodium), and planting a forage grass (brachiaria) around this intercrop.

NewsPest/disease control

The fall armyworm (FAW) has recently invaded and become an important pest of maize in Africa causing yield losses reaching up to a third of maize annual production.

News

Maseno University’s UPSCALE project team is focused on enhancing awareness of push-pull technology (PPT) across the region.

Farming practice

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

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This study investigates the interdependence between technology adoption, market participation and food and nutrition security in Eastern Africa, focusing on cereal farmers using push-pull technology (PPT).

Earth Observation

Capturing the phenological responses of crops in diverse, small-scale agricultural systems is one of the most notable remote sensing research gaps in Eastern Africa.

Farming practice

Push-pull technology improves agricultural productivity. However, its long-term effect on biomass carbon and soil organic carbon (SOC) is not yet known.

Climate change

Climate change and land degradation adversely affect food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Agricultural production system

Mixed cropping is one of the strategies proposed for weed control, with potential to increase crop yield.

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