The status on extension of agricultural science and technology in China was analyzed in this paper, Some existing problems were pointed out, such as the backward traditional concept of paying much more attention to research and looking down extension, no adapt among extension system of agricultural science and technology, operating mechanism and requirements of market.
With the establishment of a socialist market economy and under the new situation of WTO,the existing agricultural sci-tech extension system with the government as main carrier has shown its shortcomings,which are shown mainly as imperfect extension system,low conversion rate for the achievements,loose connection among scientific research,education and extension.
The paper is aim to provide valuable reference for deepening the reform of agricultural extension system, and for accelerating the establishment of trans-regional and professional new-type agricultural sci-tech extension service organization which is suitable for agricultural industrial zone.
Because of a series of reasons such as weakness of agriculture, challenges brought by China's WTO entry and the particularity of agricultural technological extension, underdeveloped market of agricultural technology and the phenomenon that almost all the agricultural scientific and technological extension resources are possessed by the government: the government has to play the role of guidance in the rural scientific and technological extension.