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In integrated pest management programmes, farmers are often advised to deliberately grow a crop such as okra along the border of their main cotton field, not primarily to obtain an economic yield from that border crop, but specifically to lure and concentrate bollworm populations away from the main crop so they can be more easily monitored and destroyed. What is this specific pest management strategy called?
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