As Cambodia's agriculture has grown dramatically over the last decade, with a view to the breadth of labor and necessity to ensure food security, agricultural management and natural resource utilization by the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fishery requested the Royal Government to install the Department of Agronomy and Improvement of Agricultural Land to General Department of Agriculture.

Sub-Decree No 188 on November 14, 2008 amended the administrative and technical management structure of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to meet the requirements of promoting agriculture, forestry and fishery development especially Promote the implementation of the policy of the Royal Government of Cambodia to achieve the results be more abstract.