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Places of work of agricultural advisory experts are changing, simultaneously with changes in the purpose of the activities and equipment of a workshop. The characteristics of a local advisory expert’s place of work were based on questionnaires, filled in in 1993 by 199 advisors from 9 provinces, drawn by lot. The investigated group of advisors carries on their activities mainly as individual advisory services. This form of advice is preferred by 80% of respondents. In the structure of working time individual pieces of advice make 45% of total working time. The advisors themselves determine the choice of forms and methods. 137 respondents (68%) claimed that they are fully independent in choosing the advisory methods. The rest of investigated experts sought their superiors’ opinion. The decided majority of local experts qualified the aim of their place of work in the way that clearly showed accurate perception of their own part in the process of adaptation family farms to the conditions of market economy. Extensive field and too many farms that are within the range of advisory local experts’ activities is the reason why only a part of farms is served with direct experts’ custody. The majority of country population is not within the direct influence of advisory services. Shortage of advisory experts’ working place equipment cause incomplete utilization of advisory activity possibilities out of town.