Birth of Modern Agricultural Extension Services

Question 1

True or False:

The first AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION service of a modern kind came into existence as the result of a crisis and the initiative of the occupant of a high office of authority.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In 1841, what society was created/found after Britain’s Royal Agricultural Society?

Answer 2

Royal Agricultural Improvement Society (RAIS)

Question 3

What year did the potato blight outbreak in Europe occured?

Answer 3

1845

Question 4

In September 1847, who did the newly-appointed British viceroy to Ireland urged for RAIS to appoint to inform and show small farmers how to improve cultivation and grow nutritious crops?

Answer 4

Itinerant Lecturers

Question 5

Who became the first Director of Extension at the University of Chicago in the year 1892?

Answer 5

Moulton

Question 6

What two developments were significant to the evolution of agricultural extension in the USA in 1862?

Answer 6

Signing of Morrill Act of 1862 and beginning of Farmers’ Institute Movements

Question 7

What act was provided for the creation of Land Grant Colleges and Universities (1862)?

Answer 7

Morrill Act of 1862

Question 8

What act in 1887 that established a cooperative bond between the US Department of Agriculture and the nation’s land grant colleges by providing annual federal funding for agricultural experiment stations in all the states?

Answer 8

Hatch Act

Question 9

What two developments in the USA happened in 1890?

Answer 9

Second Morrill Act and Farmers’ Institution Movements became institutionalized with federal support and supervision

Question 10

What act established the COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE as an extension agency in 1914?

Answer 10

Smith-Lever Act

Question 11

Its objective is to aid in diffusing among people in the USA, useful and practical information in subjects related to agriculture and home economics.

Answer 11

Cooperative Extension Service