ABSTRACT: Agro-processing is defined as set of techno-economic activities,
applied to all the produces, originating from agricultural farm, livestock, aquacultural sources and forests for their conservation, handling and value- addition to make them usable as food, feed, fibre, fuel or industrial raw materials.
Agro-processing sector has experienced expansion during last 5 decades, starting
with a handful of facilities which were mainly operating at domestic/cottage level. The paper provides a summary of the growth history of the sector covering role of R&D, recent trends vis-a-vis crop-wise status of agro-processing industrialization and problems, export trends, SWOT analysis and thrust areas for future for achieving greater role of this sector in the national economy.
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Source: Indonesian Agroindustries
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