The Agricultural Extension Service is a unit that handles four main areas:

·         Training farmers in different methods, according to need.

·         Providing professional training to farmers.

·         Producing applied knowledge through field experiments
  and observations.

·         Professional counseling to units of the Ministry of
  Agriculture.

Special emphasis is given to subjects that reflect public and social benefits and that serve the farmers in particular as well as the entire population. There are professional teams, on the national and district levels, that are working on the promotion of these subjects.

·        Water aspects - efficient use of water; water recycling; use
  of reclaimed and salty water.

·         Integrating technologies and mechanization, thus saving
  in labor force.

·         Improving the quality of agricultural produce to meet
  international standards, for both the local market and
  export.

·         Decreasing the use of pesticides in vegetal agriculture.

·         Promoting agricultural subjects that are related to the
  quality of the environment (dairy-farm reform; use of
  sludge in agriculture; prevention of agricultural trimming
  burning, etc).

·         Diversifying available species in agricultural production.