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The object of the study was to get to know professional functions, working conditions, methods and forms of agricultural advisory experts working in agricultural advisory centres in north-east and centre-east regions of Poland. The study was performed with a help of diagnostic sounding method and questionnaires of interview were used. The study included 283 local agricultural advisory experts. The investigated advisors consider their advisory function to be the most important, and the main task being carried on is to adapt family farms to the conditions of market economy. The principal factor which limits the advisory efficiency is insufficient organization of advisory experts’ work. In respect of frequency of using, the individual advisory services is the most often activity. The total method was not adopted permanently in conditions of the researched regions.