About Lesson
- The prime condition is that information has been assembled, systematized, and made available on good or progressive or new agricultural practices suited to a particular environment
- Second, this information is used, among other things, to educate professional agriculturists who may further enlarge or refine this body of knowledge or become active promoters and disseminators of it.
- Third, an appropriate administrative or organizational structure exists by and within which the dissemination activities may be established and conducted.
- Fourth, a legislative or some other official mandate or influential proponent prescribes or enables that agricultural extension work is desirable and must occur.
- Fifth, there are invariably a variety of antecedents that have attempted proper forms of agricultural information and advice dissemination.
- Sixth, the incidence of critical situations, such as famine, crop failure, soil exhaustion, or altered economic conditions or relationships, may create an immediate cause for initiating the organization of extension work. All or several of these conditions have been present in the evolution of modem forms of agricultural extension.
