AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
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- 4. Last name of the person known as the Father of University Extension.
- 9. Last name of the founder of the home extension service in the Philippines.
- 10. The level of governance in the Philippines where agricultural development was implemented.
- 14. 99 The name of the rice production program that aimed for 99 cavans per hectare.
- 15. The primary beneficiaries of agricultural extension services and programs.
- 16. Organizations promoted in the Philippines’ agricultural extension to assist farmers.
- 18. 1887 Act that funded agricultural experiment stations in the U.S.
- 19. 1914 Act that established the Cooperative Extension Service in the U.S.
- 20. A method of disseminating agricultural information to rural communities.
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- 1. Agents Term for advisers or field workers in agricultural extension programs.
- 2. Individuals tasked with traveling around districts to inform farmers about improving cultivation.
- 3. This crop suffered from a blight in 1845, leading to the birth of modern agricultural extension.
- 5. Farms Term for the farms set up by Spanish missionaries to educate Filipino farmers.
- 6. Key process in the transfer of knowledge between experts and farmers.
- 7. Abbreviation for Royal Agricultural Improvement Society, established in Ireland in 1841.
- 8. Country influenced by global agricultural extension practices, starting from the Spanish regime.
- 11. This university adopted extension education and organized centers for extension lectures in 1871.
- 12. The primary sector supported by extension services, including farming and livestock.
- 13. U.S. Act signed in 1862 to establish land-grant colleges for agriculture.
- 17. One of the first universities to introduce extension education in England (1850).