Preoccupation for adapting the role of sate in agricultural extension for supporting agricultural producers started long time ago, but its critical moment was in 1980’ in many countries form different continents and with diverse level of economical development, fact that suggests a global phenomena. But Government should desire to invest in agricultural extension when it considers that this represents an efficient instrument for promoting the national

The concept of extension is extremely wide and complex, being developed in a system that differs on many characteristics: beneficiaries, objectives, sources of covering the costs and so on. At the moment is interesting to know for government which are the limits until there it can give up its power and responsibility without implying negative effects; knowing both that most of the beneficiaries are not able to sustain the cost of being helped and