THE EGYPTIAN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE: HISTORY, STRUCTURE, AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

Agricultural extension is an adult learning system implemented by an integrated system consists mainly of volunteers, extension agents, subject matter specialists, and local leaders to serve farmers, their families, and their environments, to help them help themselves in raising their socio-economic standards through bringing about desired changes in their knowledge, skills, and attitudes (Omar, 1992). The main objective of this research was to identify features of the Egyptian Agricultural Extension Service. Affiliated with that main objective, some other objectives were determined. Those related objectives were: to identify the current situation of the Egyptian agriculture, to identify history of the Egyptian agriculture extension service, to identify organizational structure of the Egyptian Agricultural extension service, to determine some critical obstacles that obstruct impact of the Egyptian agricultural extension service, and to identify challenges that encounter efforts of the Egyptian agricultural extension service.