The Myanmar Agriculture Service (MAS) is one of 14 institutions of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MOAI), and the Agricultural Extension Division (AED) nowadays is the biggest among the nine divisions of the MAS and absorbs a large amount of the
total strength of MAS, having 11081 staff. The main objectives of the Agricultural Extension Division are the transfer of new agricultural technologies to the farmers and the identification and solving of farmers’ problems in their fieldwork.