Push–pull technology refers to a promising mixed cropping practice for sustainable agricultural intensification, which uses properties of intercrop and border crop species to defend a focal crop against pests.
July 24, 2024
Striga and stem borer are the major challenges to sorghum production and causing serious food security problems in Ethiopia.
July 24, 2024
Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, is a serious invasive pest in Africa but “Push-Pull” companion cropping can substantially reduce infestation.
July 24, 2024
Mesoplatys ochroptera Sta ̊l, Exosoma and Ootheca spp. seriously damage sesbania, Sesbania sesban (L.) Merril, a multipurpose leguminous tree widely used in tropical agroforestry.
July 24, 2024
Large-scale monitoring programmes often make inferences about insect abundance based on count data collected using some probability-based sampling technique.
July 24, 2024
Researchers and regulatory agencies often make statistical inferences from insect count data using modelling approaches that assume homogeneous variance.
July 24, 2024
Traditional occupancy–abundance and abundance–variance–occupancy models do not take into account zero-inflation, which occurs when sampling rare species or in correlated counts arising from repeated measures.
July 24, 2024
Recent studies show that soil animal count data are characterized by the presence of excess zeros and overdispersion, which violate the assumptions of standard statistical tests.
July 24, 2024
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) has been a fundamental method used for analysis of abundance and incidence data.
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.