In the 1960s and 1970s, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) incorporated the land-grant university (LGU) system, with its embedded extension system, as a policy centerpiece for creating U.S.-style agricultural higher education institutions in the new postwar nations, yet not adopted worldwide, China, Ethiopia, and India among many, overwhelmingly chose to embed their extension services in centralized national ministries of agriculture (MoAs), not in university structures.
Source: Journal of Extension & USDA