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This paper examines the challenges of designing and implementing appropriate institutional arrangements for providing extension services to farmers. It looks at this issue in view of the changing context, the changing information and technological needs of farmers, and the emergence of new organizations in extension delivery. It focuses particularly on what agricultural extension can offer the rural poor. This paper argues that to perform new roles with wider scope, extension services must change fundamentally, not only in personnel and resources, but also in their basic perceptions and practices as they relate to the role of the state in agricultural and rural development.