The future of agricultural product processing innovation is very promising! These directions are hot spots!

"Agriculture without processing is nothing; There is no chain in agriculture and no money at the end!"

Agricultural product processing industry is an effective form of transforming agricultural products, greatly increasing the added value of agricultural products and improving the scientific and technological content, which occupies an important position in the sustainable development of the agricultural industry chain. It is said that the processing of agricultural products is like the waist of the entire agricultural industry chain, and the hardness of the waist indicates that the industrial system is not strong and the industrial chain is not long.

Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the Guiding Opinions on Expanding Multiple Functions of Agriculture to Promote High-quality Development of Rural Industries. One of the important tasks is to expand and strengthen the agricultural product processing industry, give full play to the central role of the county agricultural product processing industry in the vertical production and marketing, build a standard raw material base, build an efficient processing system, integrate processing technology results, build the whole agricultural industry chain, and create a well-known agricultural brand.

The processing of agricultural products has bigger market space

At present, China's fruit processing rate is only 10%, lower than the world's 30% level; Our meat processing rate is only 17%, far below the 60% level of developed countries. These gaps are precisely the new and larger market space of the agricultural product processing industry, and every 1 percentage point increase in the processing rate of agricultural products corresponds to billions of billions of consumption capacity. This is a gold mine that is the envy of the world.

Agricultural product processing hot spots

1. Convenience food

In recent years, "Luosifen" has become popular all over the world, and the market scale and industrial output value of Liuzhou Luosifen have increased year by year. In 2015, the output value of the spiral rice noodle industry was about 500 million yuan, and in 2019, the output value of the whole industrial chain of spiral rice noodle exceeded 13 billion yuan. In addition, by the end of 2025, Liuzhou Luosifen whole industry chain strives to achieve sales revenue of 90 billion yuan.

At first, Luosifen was limited to street snacks, and now Liuzhou Luosifen has gradually realized production standardization, processing modernization, and large-scale development. It is understood that the local government has accelerated the upgrading of the snail noodle production workshop to mechanization, automation and intelligent shift by encouraging technological innovation of enterprises.

2, freeze-dried products

Since 2020, the sudden outbreak of the global epidemic has made freeze-drying with healthy attributes widely favored by consumers.

Jackfruit, strawberry, kiwi, apple, dates, figs, okra, mushrooms... As long as you can think of fruits and vegetables can be transformed into fruit and vegetable chips by vacuum low temperature dehydration process. Three squirrels, Baicao and other brands have joined the freeze-dried category, and the market performance is bright.

Freezing can maximize the color, flavor, nutrition, appearance and shape of the original fresh food. It can be stored at room temperature for more than 5 years without preservatives, and the finished product is light in weight, easy to carry and transport, and is an excellent method for processing tourism, leisure and convenient food.

3. Vegetable processing

The so-called "pure vegetables" are vegetables that have been washed, picked and cut into pieces, and consumers can directly fry them when they buy them at home, or even directly into the mouth.

Unlike in the past, the vegetables bought in the market often carry soil and impurities, which is very inconvenient to deal with, and will worry about pesticide residues and other problems. Before the raw materials of pure vegetables are sent into the cold storage, strict cleaning work is carried out first to ensure that there is no pesticide or chemical residue on the surface of the vegetables. After cleaning, it is necessary to manually remove stray leaves, peel and other processes. After cleaning again, it can be divided into packages and put into storage.

At present, most of the raw materials of China's vegetable business enterprises are supplied by the wholesale market of agricultural products. In the process from planting vegetables to providing consumers with pure vegetables, the cost of pure vegetables increases layer by layer through six or seven links such as farmers, wholesale markets in producing areas, first-level or even second-level wholesale markets in sales areas, pure vegetables processors, supermarkets (or property, convenience stores), resulting in the price of pure vegetables is 30%-40% higher than ordinary vegetables.

Establish more "source direct sourcing" cooperation between the producing area and the sales terminal, processing vegetables into pure vegetables in the producing area, and then directly shipped to the sales terminal, which helps to reduce the loss in the transportation process, not only to ensure the freshness of vegetables, but also to allow consumers to enjoy lower product prices. Industry insiders predict that in the next 5-10 years, China's vegetable industry will develop rapidly.

4, natural plant extraction

With the development of science and technology and the changes in the consumption of health products, extraction technology is no longer only around medicinal materials, and the extraction of non-medicinal cash crops has become very important. Pepper, tea, citrus, honeysuckle, Coptis, Ginkgo, Angelica... Deep processing can boost the sales of agricultural products and cash crops, and is an important method for rural revitalization.

There is also a great demand for natural plant extracts in Asia, and the cultivation and extraction of medicinal materials in China is very large, mainly concentrated in Sichuan, Yunnan, Hunan, Shaanxi and other provinces. At present, there are about 2,000 plant extraction enterprises in China, but most of them are small and scattered, lacking core technical advantages and competitiveness.

Obtaining effective molecular components and raw materials from natural plants will be a major technological innovation that China's agriculture must face in the future to participate in international competition, and it is also a creative outlet for technological upgrading, which is worthy of attention.