Palm | Kelapa Sawit

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.