Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are among the largest states of India. Both states are predominantly agrarian in nature, roughly 66% of the workforce is directly dependent on agriculture and allied services. In this context, agricultural extension services become a vital force in skilling and knowledge transfers to farmers. Agricultural extension services in both states consist of various levels of functionaries. These functionaries are tasked with the transfer of knowledge from lab to field. But these extension workers are not able to effectively perform their role as knowledge providers due to the lack of sufficient workforce. To address this issue, governments brought schemes like Multi purpose extension officer scheme and the Adarsha Rythu scheme. These schemes are full of lacunas, such as low skill of grass root level functionaries, use of functionaries for political purposes etc.