• Veena P. Swami
• Tabrez Ahmad
• Vivek Kumar Dixit
• Nootan Singh

The push-pull strategy is a behavioural manipulation method that uses repellent/deterrent (push) and attractive/stimulant (pull) stimuli to direct the movement of pest or beneficial insects for pest management. Stimuli used for behavioural manipulation in push pull strategies include visual and semiochemical cues or signals that work by nontoxic mechanisms. Such strategies are therefore integrated with other population-reducing methods. Sustainable and environmentally sensitive components are favoured, and the use of insecticides can be reduced. The push-pull strategy undertakes a holistic approach in exploiting chemical ecology and agrobiodiversity. Push-pull strategies targeted at pest insects are being developed in all major areas of pest management. However, their use is currently underexploited. Changing attitudes toward replacing broad-spectrum insecticides with new technologies, particularly semiochemical tools, to manipulate the behaviour of natural enemies for biological control will enable improved push-pull strategies to be developed and used more widely in the future. This paper summarizes the principles of the push pull strategy. Its potential components like semiochemicals, host-plant resistance, trap crops and selective pesticides or biological control agents and examples of practical applications of push pull strategies in integrated pest management.

Push, Pull, Semiochemicals, Habitat management, Trap crops.

"PUSH-PULL STRATEGIES IN INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no.c573-c590, August-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208264.pdf

"PUSH-PULL STRATEGIES IN INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no. ppc573-c590, August-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208264.pdf