In the same year, 1903, a Japanese silk production expert was
brought to the country and made an adviser for the development of the
Siamese silk industry. An organizational base was provided for his activities
by setting up a silk Production Department in the Ministry of
Agriculture under the direction of a prince who had recently returned
from foreign study of agriculture. The new department gradually expanded
the scope of its work to other crops, however, so that in 1908
it was renamed the Department of Cultivation.