MODULE 2a

Question 1

In the early beginnings, what evidences featured an advice on watering crops and getting rid of rats (advice on how to deal with impending drought saved the Egyptians from famine)?

Answer 1

Clay tablets

Question 2

What was the symbols/records of extension regarding the Nile River (source of life)?

Answer 2

Hieroglyphics

Question 3

What happened in 1850 that pushed England to introduce extension?

Answer 3

Growing population in urban areas; industrial revolution

Question 4

What year was University Extension introduced in England?

Answer 4

1867

Question 5

Father of University of Extension (1871)

Answer 5

James Stuart

Question 6

1873

Answer 6

Extension education to England

Question 7

1880s

Answer 7

Extension movement; institutionalized function

Question 8

1890s

Answer 8

Agricultural subjects

Question 9

What crisis in 1845 resulted to the first agricultural extension service?

Answer 9

Potato blight outbreak

Question 10

What are the American Extension Movements? (AFLC)

Answer 10

1) Agricultural Societies
2) Farmers’ Institute Movements
3) Land Grant Institution
4) Cooperative Extension Service

Question 11

A community meeting covering a period of two to three days and devoted to a discussion of agricultural problems and subjects relating to the home

Answer 11

Farmers’ Institute Movements

Question 12

Chartered state societies organized to disseminate agricultural information

Answer 12

Agricultural Societies

Question 13

Land-grant college/university
Higher education to receive benefits of Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890

Answer 13

Land Grant Institution

Question 14

• Partnership between the federal government, state government, local county government with SUCs
• Diffusion of useful and practical information in agriculture and home economics

Answer 14

Cooperative Extension Service

Question 15

What act established the Land Grant College?

Answer 15

First Morrill Act of 1862

Question 16

What act established state Agricultural Experiment Stations and the cooperative bond between the USDA and the nation’s land grant colleges to conduct extension activities?

Answer 16

Hatch Act of 1887

Question 17

What act increased the federal financial support for Land Grant Colleges?

Answer 17

Second Morrill Act of 1890

Question 18

What act established the US Cooperative Extension Services in the land grant colleges?

Answer 18

Smith-Lever Act

Question 19

What Act was the Devolution of Extension Services?

Answer 19

Republic Act of 7160 of 1991