Processing Agricultural Product in Socio- economic Development of the Central Highlands Region

Abstract

The Central Highlands has become one of the major agricultural production areas of the country with large-scale, high-proportion staple agricultural products, especially industrial crops and fruit trees. The Central Highlands is considered a region with great potential for developing the agricultural and forestry processing industry, especially the processing industry of short-term staple industrial crops. In recent years, the processing industry of short-term staple industrial crops has made positive contributions to the socio-economic development of the Central Highlands. However, the processing industry is still limited and has not developed commensurate with the potential and raw materials; agricultural products are mainly exported raw and semi-processed, businesses have encountered difficulties in quality raw materials, uneven quality of agricultural products, low quantity and not guaranteed to harvest on time, supply and demand do not meet because of factors such as the lack of driving enterprises; the underdeveloped processing mechanism; non-synchronized infrastructure; low quality of human resources; difficulties in identifying key products and planning raw material areas. Dealing well with these issues may help to foster socio-development of the Central Highlands region.