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A guide for farmers and extension staff 2nd edition

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This easy-to-read primer shows farmers how to manage two of the major pests of maize-stem borers and striga weed-in the eastern and southern Africa region without the useof chemical pesticides. The ‘push-pull’ strategy is a novel system of intercropping designed to manage the agroecohabitat for higher maize yields,while at the same time providing fodder, enriching the soil and conserving boidiversity Push-pull can also be adapted for sorghum and millet fields and is an affordable, appropriate and socially acceptable technology for use by Africa’s farmers.

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