ABSTRACT
A central aim of extension services is the dissemination of agricultural information to farmers in order to enhance their productive capability. Technology transfer involves informing farmers about new 'packages' of technologies and techniques, including both hard and soft, as well as to assist farmers in working out how to fit them into their individual farming systems. The transmission of new ideas from points of discovery to various agricultural stakeholders is another important aim of extension services. Providing education to farmers as well as creating an educational environment is an additional function of extension. In Pakistan, as elsewhere, extension services have been organized, first according to the linear and later the two-step approach. In the early 1900s, a series of commission reports recommended the creation of an environment that would promote a more 'scientific' agriculture in the British India. The Village-AID program was the first well-organized and concrete effort towards agricultural development by the new government of Pakistan.
