Extension Teaching Methods Questions and Answers

Answer: A

A method demonstration is based on the principle of Learning by doing.

In a method demonstration, the extension worker shows farmers step by step how to carry out a practice, such as seed treatment, grafting or calibrating a sprayer, and the farmers then try it themselves. Doing the task with their own hands is what fixes the skill, so it rests on the principle of learning by doing; it teaches how, while a result demonstration shows why.

Satisfaction, cooperation and participation, and teaching are general principles of extension, but none is the specific basis of a method demonstration.

Answer: C

The method is the Farmers Field School (FFS).

The Farmers Field School was developed by the FAO in Indonesia in 1989 for integrated pest management in rice and later extended to integrated crop management. A group of about 20 to 25 farmers meets weekly through a whole season in a field, observes the crop and its pests and natural enemies, and makes management decisions through agro-ecosystem analysis. Learning by discovery in the field is suited to IPM, which depends on judgement rather than fixed recipes.

Exhibitions, campaigns and symposia are useful for spreading awareness, but they are one-off events that cannot teach season-long field decision-making.