A Study on training and development in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), Cambodia (with special reference to agricultural productivity improvement project (APIP))

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Sothy, C.
Graduate School of Business Administration, Institute of Postgraduate and Research Studies, Build Bright University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Behera, M.
Graduate School of Business Administration, Institute of Postgraduate and Research Studies, Build Bright University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Human Resource plays an important role for organizational development and change in Cambodia. In fact, the trained staff and managers under APIP project of MAFF were done as the sources of forces for development in the departments in MAFF and the provincial departments. Therefore, the study on Training and Development was done which special reference to Agricultural Productivity Improvement Project, in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). The results of survey indicated that large outputs of APIP staff training were achieved. More than 93 percent of respondents from many kinds of educational background (High School, Two Years Technical Training, Bachelor, Master and PhD degrees) participated in the Training Courses. The types of training included technical trainings, which were required by project and MAFF. Moreover, age-group-wise distribution of respondents showed that age of respondents lower than 35 years old and between 35 to 45 years old actively participated in the project. However, the trained staff participated in APIP faced the following problems such as: (1) the training activities were still not in balance between males and females, the motivation policies of government were also still limited due to shortage of budget for support  and maintaining the sustainable training, and (2) problems related to HRD/TD in APIP of MAFF were serious challenges that the Ministry had been facing and it had still encountered with other projects in MAFF or in other Ministries of Cambodia. Furthermore, as training and development in human resource was one of the key factor developments among other main factors of Cambodian government’s Policy, therefore, the government should consider and gather all information relating to this issue for resolving with creditors and donors to find a process method quickly for project implementation in MAFF or in Cambodia.

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Sothy, C., & Behera, M. (2015). A Study on training and development in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), Cambodia (with special reference to agricultural productivity improvement project (APIP)). International Journal of Agricultural Technology, 11(7), 1425–1441. retrieved from https://li04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/IJAT/article/view/6518
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Vol. 11 No. 7 (2015): November
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