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Push-pull Planting

Push-Pull Planting is a companion planting strategy that functions as a pest management technique by simultaneously repelling pests from a primary crop while attracting them toward a designated trap crop, thereby creating a directional pest movement through chemical and visual signaling cues.

11

Publications

882

Citations

48

Authors

20

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Variants

Push-pull StrategyPush-pull Technology

Parents

Publications

11

A climate-adapted push-pull system effectively controls fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J E Smith), in maize in East Africa

Charles A. O. Midega, Jimmy Pittchar, John A. Pickett et al. · Crop Protection · 2017 · 420 citations · Full text

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Push—pull technology: a conservation agriculture approach for integrated management of insect pests, weeds and soil health in Africa

Zeyaur R. Khan, Charles A. O. Midega, Jimmy Pittchar et al. · International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability · 2011 · 199 citations

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Farmers’ perceptions of a ‘push–pull’ technology for control of cereal stemborers and Striga weed in western Kenya

Zeyaur R. Khan, David M. Amudavi, Charles A. O. Midega et al. · Crop Protection · 2008 · 89 citations

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Push-pull technology improves maize grain yield and total aboveground biomass in maize-based systems in Western Kenya

Pierre Celestin Ndayisaba, Shem Kuyah, Charles A. O. Midega et al. · Field Crops Research · 2020 · 41 citations

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Performance of Push–Pull Technology in Low-Fertility Soils under Conventional and Conservation Agriculture Farming Systems in Malawi

Saliou Niassy, Mawufe Komi Agbodzavu, Bester Tawona Mudereri et al. · Sustainability · 2022 · 31 citations · Full text

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Authors

48

  1. CA
    Charles A. O. Midega

    International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya

    5 publications · 767 citations

    5

    h-index

  2. ZR
    Zeyaur R. Khan

    International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya

    5 publications · 379 citations

    5

    h-index

  3. JA
    John A. Pickett

    Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 708 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. JP
    Jimmy Pittchar

    International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya

    3 publications · 650 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. SN
    Saliou Niassy

    International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya

    2 publications · 50 citations

    2

    h-index

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Institutions

20

  1. International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology

    Nairobi, Kenya

    7 h-index

    35 publications

    3.3K citations

  2. Rothamsted Research

    Harpenden, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    907 citations

  3. Egerton University

    Nakuru, Kenya

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    89 citations

  4. Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

    Nairobi, Kenya

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    123 citations

  5. Universidade Federal de Lavras

    Lavras, Brazil

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    92 citations

  6. Kenyatta University

    Nairobi, Kenya

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  7. Fahrenheit (Germany)

    Munich, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  8. University of Bremen

    Bremen, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

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Venues

  1. Sustainability

    2 publications · 49 citations

    2

    h-index

  2. Crop Protection

    2 publications · 509 citations

    2

    h-index

  3. Insects

    1 publications · 14 citations

    1

    h-index

  4. Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity

    1 publications · 10 citations

    1

    h-index

  5. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

    IJAS · 1 publications · 199 citations

    1

    h-index

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