cated version of the U.S. system which was exported abroad was no

longer the U.S. system. It was substantially congruent with the

pre-war colonial extension systems of British, French, and Dutch

administrators in Asia and Africa in its philosophical and

structural base.

 For the past thirty years, agricultural extension programs

have been important components in agricultural development work on

most continents. Major programs have been undertaken in Latin America,2

Asia,3 and selected African countries. In 1974, various countries

were spending about $1.3 billion annually for agricultural extension

(not including research or education) to support roughly 320,000

extension workers.4 (It should be noted that extension work is de-

fined differently in different countries, and some of these "ex-

tension workers" include regular field staff of ministries of

 Akhter Hameed Khan, Ten Decades of Rural Development.

 2Excellent reviews of agricultural development and extension
work in Latin America are Arthur Mosher, Technical Co-operation in
Latin-American Agriculture, and E.B. Rice, Extension in The Andes
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974).

 A succinct statement of agricultural extension work in the
South Asian context is Akhter Hameed Khan, Ten Decades of Rural
Development.

 James Boyce and Robert Evenson, Agricultural Research and
Extension Programs (N.Y.: Agricultural Development Council, 1975),
pp. 5, 32-36.