The process began with the launching of higher level training institutions
to provide personnel qualified for the increasingly specialized
work of the departments. At first, as we have seen, top-level specialists
received their training abroad, but as the departments grew in size it
seemed more economical to set up special training facilities in Thailand.
In 1935, the Forestry Department established a school in the north, at
Prae, to train future forestry officers. The Department of Irrigation
followed this lead in 1938 by setting up its own school of irrigation.
The same year, the Department of Agriculture took over several agricultural
training schools from the Ministry of Education, reconstituting
them into an agricultural college as a new division.