Abstract:
From the perspective of the new agricultural policy, investment in extension services are potentially important tools for
improving product agricultural productivity and increase farmers' income.
Advisory and extension services in agriculture are a real engine in promoting agricultural development and therefore the
2008 World Development Report (WDR), Agriculture for Development, focuses on the role of extension in agriculture
and its effective development challenges in the coming decades.
Terms advisory services and agricultural extension covers the entire set of organizations to support and facilitate
problem solving people involved in agricultural production and obtaining information, skills and technologies that
improve their lives. Under the new agricultural policy, Member States may, in accordance with objective and criteria
priority categories of farms with access to agricultural advisory systems
Advisory systems should provide advice to farmers at least the regulatory requirements management requirements and
good agricultural and environmental conditions, participation in FAS is voluntary. In this context, Chapter 3, Articles
12-13 of Regulation (EC) no. 73/2009 requires all EU Member States to implement an advisory system to assist farmers
to understand the rules on cross compliance and help meet the standards.
