Push–pull technology is an intercropping strategy for controlling agricultural pests by using repellent "push" plants and trap "pull" plants. For example, cereal crops like maize or sorghum are often
"Push-pull" experimental plots at ICIPE campus in Mbita, Kenya. (Left: Maize with Desmodium spp. intercropping. Right: Maize monoculture with Striga infestation).
"Push": Silverleaf Desmodium (D. uncinatum) in flower
"Pull": Strip of Signal grass (Brachiaria brizantha) planted along the edge of a push-pull field in Kenya
Maize push-pull farm at ICIPE, Mbita Point, Kenya, showing intercrop Desmodium spp.
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Intercropping is a multiple cropping practice that involves the cultivation of two or more crops simultaneously on the same field, a form of polyculture. The most common goal of intercropping is to pr
Coconut and Mexican marigold, a multilayer cropping in India
Chili pepper intercropped with coffee in Colombia's southwestern Cauca Department
Rice in a young banana field
Mixed intercropping of oat and rye in Brastad, Sweden