ICAR AIEEA-PG — Forestry/Agroforestry & Silviculture (Major Subject Group 09) · India · National Testing Agency for ICAR
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersWorking with farmers, communities and the public: extension methods, communication, adoption of innovations, and training for tree growing and forest conservation. General agricultural extension is taught in the Agribusiness track.
In the exams: ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 09 Unit I (elementary principles of agri-extension); state forest service exams (extension and publicity)
ICAR AIEEA-PG Forestry (Group 09, Unit I extension principles)
Meaning and principles of extension, extension methods, communication models and barriers, adoption process and adopter categories, attributes of innovations, programme planning and evaluation, and India's extension history (CDP 1952, NES 1953, T&V, KVK, ATMA).
How our questions for ICAR AIEEA-PG spread across the units of Forestry Extension & Communication. Difficulty: 14 easy, 20 medium, 9 hard.
| Diffusion and adoption of innovations | 10 | |
| Concepts and principles of forestry extension | 7 | |
| Extension methods: individual, group, mass | 7 | |
| Communication process and barriers | 6 | |
| Environmental education and awareness | 5 | |
| Programme planning and evaluation | 5 | |
| Media, digital extension and outreach campaigns | 2 | |
| Extension for farm forestry and agroforestry | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
India's Community Development Programme was launched on:
B. 2 October 1952
Followed by the National Extension Service in 1953.
The Training and Visit system of extension was designed by:
C. Daniel Benor
Promoted by the World Bank from the mid-1970s.
A demonstration showing how to graft a fruit tree is a:
C. Method demonstration
Method shows how; result shows what can be achieved.
Schramm's contribution to communication models emphasised:
A. Shared experience fields
The correct answer is Overlapping fields of experience. Plus feedback.
According to Rogers, innovators make up what share of adopters?
B. 2.5 percent
Early adopters 13.5%, majorities 34% each, laggards 16%.
In Bohlen and Beal's adoption process, the first stage is:
A. Awareness
Awareness, interest, evaluation, trial, adoption.
In a village of 500 households, Rogers' categories predict about how many early adopters?
A. 67 to 68
500 x 13.5% = 67.5. 170 is a majority group.
Cumulative adoption of an innovation over time typically follows:
A. An S-shaped curve
Slow start, rapid middle, slowing end.
The attribute describing how easily an innovation can be tried on a small scale is:
C. Trialability
Trees score low on trialability.
Freeman Tilden's Interpreting Our Heritage was published in:
B. 1957
Principles of interpretation.
Ten here, 43 in the app. The Laisha app has every practice question we have written to ICAR AIEEA-PG in this subject, marked as you go, with timed papers, a jump-to-unanswered list and a certificate when you pass at 70 per cent.
Free for ten days, then one subscription of US$10 a month. We would rather say so here than have you find it later.
An AI operating system for agriculture: free guides, manuals and tools written for every country.