Extension Principles — Agriculture Extension & Communication Reviewer Questions
3 board-style Extension Principles items for the Agriculturist Licensure Examination, free and open to every examinee. Learn the named models and their originators. Items here frequently turn on a term rather than on judgement.
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Sample Extension Principles questions with answers and explanations
Board-style items taken from the Agriculture Extension & Communication bank. Every answer is explained, which is the part that makes a review question worth doing twice.
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An extension worker decides what farmers need without consulting them, then reports low participation. Which principle of extension was disregarded?
- A. Extension works WITH people, not FOR them correct
- B. Extension must always follow national priorities
- C. Extension should focus on the most productive farmers
- D. Extension must deliver inputs alongside advice
Why: The participation principle holds that people support what they help to shape. Deciding on their behalf produces programmes that are technically defensible and socially inert, and low attendance is the predictable result rather than a surprise.
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A municipal agriculturist insists every barangay adopt the same cropping calendar. Which extension principle is most directly compromised?
- A. The principle of trained specialists
- B. The principle of adaptability to local conditions correct
- C. The principle of applied science
- D. The principle of leadership development
Why: Extension recommendations must be adapted to the soils, water, markets and social conditions of each locality. A uniform calendar imposed across differing conditions guarantees that it will be wrong somewhere, and farmers will discover that before the agency does.
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An extension worker builds a programme entirely around what farmers say they want, ignoring a serious soil acidity problem farmers have not noticed. What is the flaw?
- A. Felt needs should always be ignored in favour of technical assessment
- B. Soil acidity is outside the mandate of extension
- C. Felt needs alone are insufficient; unfelt but real needs must also be surfaced correct
- D. Farmers cannot be taught about problems they have not experienced
Why: Starting from felt needs earns participation, but extension also carries an obligation to make real problems visible. The skill is converting an unfelt need into a felt one through demonstration and evidence, rather than either ignoring it or imposing it.
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