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The objective of the work was to qualify advisory needs of country women of initiative in the bearing of advisory problems and their contents, and directions of advisory staff improvement. The study was performed in 1995 and included 266 women of initiative, 99 experts of country household and 20 managers of agricultural advisory centres. The age structure of women of initiative was favourable - every other one was aged between 36 and 45 year old. The half (51.1%) of women of initiative were secondary educated; 30.8% of the women had elementary education and 6.7% of the women had university education. Nearly 90% of women of initiative owned farms which differed considerably in their size and course of production. In opinion of 63% of the women interviewed the most serious barriers in their activities are of economic nature. Advisory centres were addressed with following advisory needs: organizational and legal needs (54% respondents), technological needs (49%), marketing needs (48%) and economic needs (19%). Advisory service staff claim that the structure of needs of country women includes 31% of organizational and legal needs, 28% of both technological and marketing needs and about 11% of economic needs.