From Lab to Land examines the worlds of farming, agricultural extension, and basic and applied scientific research through the eyes of
nearly 80 women who work in these fields in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. What these women have in common is that they have all at one time or another been involved with the push–pull programme. Push–pull is a cropping system designed to integrate control of insect pests and parasitic weeds, and soil management in cereal-based farming systems. It involves driving cereal stemborers away from the crop by using a repellent intercrop plant (the ‘push’), while at the same time attracting them to a border crop of trap plants (the ‘pull’). Chemicals released by the ‘push’ plants also effectively control a widespread noxious and parasitic weed, striga. The system also effectively repels fall armyworm, a new and dangerous pest that appeared in Africa in late 2015 and has since spread throughout the continent.
Authors: icipe team
Contact address: http://www.icipe.org/
Institution: International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe)
Twitter name of the institution: @icipe
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