The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A zebu grazes in front of one of the main buildings that forms the Preah Leap Agricultural College, located north of Phnom Penh. The college is being assisted by teachers employed by Australian Catholic Relief (ACR) to develop curriculum material and a three year diploma course in agriculture for the training of Khmer agricultural technicians, who will in turn be responsible for training agricultural students in provincial centres throughout Cambodia. Decades of war had either destroyed much of Cambodia's paddy and irrigation infrastructure or seeded it with millions of antipersonnel mines. Nearly all Cambodia's rice research scientists were murdered by the Khmer Rouge and starvation during this period saw many plunder seed stocks, wiping out the national rice genebank. The result was a drop in Cambodia's rice production from a peak of four million tons in 1969 to 800,000 tons in 1979. The assistance and training provided by ACR and the Cambodia IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) Australia Project (CIAP) had, by 1994, lifted production rates to their pre-1970 levels, achieved on less land with the better management practices taught at the College.
Palms form a background to a plot of ground at the Preah Leap Agricultural College, north of Phnom Penh, which has been seeded with a legume crop as part of diversity experiments being conducted by st
Harry Nesbitt (right), an Australian agronomist with extensive prior experience with agricultural projects in Australia, Zimbabwe, the Philippines and Thailand, manages the Cambodia IRRI (Internationa
An informal portrait of Jennifer Hartley, an Australian TAFE teacher employed by Australian Catholic Relief (ACR) to develop curriculum material for the training of Khmer agricultural technicians at t
Ross Macindoe (right), a senior Australian agricultural extension officer who is developing a new curriculum for a three year diploma course in agriculture at the Preah Leap Agricultural College, stan
Australian journalist Marje Prior (left) interviews a Khmer teacher in a classroom at the Preah Leap Agricultural College about the class he is running for a group of trainees. The trainees will soon
Khmer trainers at the Preah Leap Agricultural College undertake an English language exercise set by Australian TAFE trainer Jennifer Hartley which involves writing a proposal for aid funding for build
