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The organizational and instructive model of the system of agricultural advisory staff professional improvement was elaborated with the help of the experiences of agricultural staff professional improvement systems which were worked out and realized in the past, with the referrence to similar systems functioning in other countries. The main task of the planned professional improvement system is to enable all the state agricultural advisors to participate in organized forms of professional improvement which generally complete and increase professional competence, and prepare advisors to efficient performance of their duties. The system secures for agricultural advisory centres staff: - adaptation of general professional competence of persons who begin working in advisory service to the particular requirements of the advisor’s profession; - systematic and full renovation of information and professional skills in connexion with scientific, technological and organizational progress and changing needs of agricultural circle; - attaining the professional mastery in the range of advisory work; - exchange of achievements and professional experiences between particular persons - personnel of agricultural advisory centres; - development of affirmative motivation to improve conditions of work and to increase professional competence. Organization of professional improvement system will contribute to personification of the model of a qualified agricultural advisor, who would be able to participate in solving the farmers’ and rural circles’ problems. Development of agricultural advisors’ competence including knowledge, skills and attitudes will enable them to achieve mastery in the profession. The object of proposed system is to equalize the level of professional competence of agricultural advisors. The new system should include organizational differentiation of agricultural advisory centres and various advisory needs of the rural people in different regions of Poland in a reckoning.