Extension Approaches

Question 1

_________ is an organized and coherent combination of strategies and methods, designed to make rural extension effective in a certain area

Answer 1

Extension Approach

Question 2

_______ are approaches and method chosen or develop to
reach a particular set of goal; used to define the operational
design by means of which the national government, or other
sponsoring organizations, implements its policies

Answer 2

Strategies

Question 3

_____: that entity composed of properties such as organizational structure, leadership, resources (human and Physical), program, goals and objectives, methods and techniques for implementation, linkages with various organizations and publics.

Answer 3

Extension System

Question 4

Extension Approaches

Answer 4

1. General Agricultural Extension Approach
2. Training and Visit Approach (T&V)
3. Project Approach
4. Commodity Specialized Approach
5. Farming Systems Development Approach
6. Agricultural Extension Participatory Approach
7. Cost-Sharing Approach
8. Educational Institution Approach

Question 5

Extension Approaches

______ Approach
– General Nature - transfer of technology
– Basic assumption- technology and information are available but are not being
used by farmers. If these could be communicated to farmers, farm practices could
be improved.
– Purpose- to help farmers increase their production.
– Program planning-controlled by government and changes in priority, from time to
time, are made on a national basis, withsome freedom for local adaptation.
– Implementation- carried out by a large field staff assigned throughout the
country. Demonstration plots are a major technique.

Answer 5

1. General Agricultural Extension

Question 6

Extension Approaches

_______________Approach
– Resources required- large numbers of field personnel.
– Measures of success- increase in national production of the commodities being
emphasized in the national program.
– Advantages- interprets national government policies and procedures to the local people;
covers the whole nation; relatively easy to control by the national government; relatively
rapid communication from the ministry level to rural people.
– Disadvantages- lacks two way flow of communication; fails to adjust extension messages
to different localities; field staff not accountable to rural people; expensive arid inefficient

Answer 6

1. General Agricultural Extension

Question 7

Extension Approaches

__________ Approach (T&V)
– General nature- highly disciplined and patterned; with fixed schedule for training of village extension workers, SMSs, and scheduled visits by extension workers to farmers
– Basic assumption-extension personnel are poorly trained; not up-to-date and tend not to visit farmers, but stay in their offices; management and supervision is
not adequate; two-way communication between research and extension units and
between extension staff and farmers can be achieved through this discipline.

Answer 7

2. Training and Visit