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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.

Push-Pull in practice

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

Push-Pull in practice

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

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Mesoplatys ochroptera Sta ̊l, Exosoma and Ootheca spp. seriously damage sesbania, Sesbania sesban (L.) Merril, a multipurpose leguminous tree widely used in tropical agroforestry.

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Large-scale monitoring programmes often make inferences about insect abundance based on count data collected using some probability-based sampling technique.

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Researchers and regulatory agencies often make statistical inferences from insect count data using modelling approaches that assume homogeneous variance.

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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.

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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.

Pest/disease control

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) has been a fundamental method used for analysis of abundance and incidence data.

Pest/disease control

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.

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Striga weeds

Striga or 'witchweeds' are parasitic weeds that affect cereal crops in many parts of Africa, reducing production from 30 to 100%, or complete loss of the crop. If maize plants are attacked by both stemborers and striga weed, the yield... Continue Reading…

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