一、建设食品工业大市是促进常德经济快速发展的必然选择 1．发展食品工业是解决全市农业问题的根本出路。常德是传统的农业大市，农民占全市总人口的75％，农业在国民经济中占有举足轻重的地位。过去由于结构不合理、集约化程度低，造成农产品卖难、农民收入增长缓慢。为解决 I. Building a big food industry is an inevitable choice to promote the rapid economic development in Changde. The development of the food industry is the fundamental way to solve the agricultural problems in the city. Changde is a traditional agricultural city. Farmers account for 75% of the city’s total population. Agriculture plays a decisive role in the national economy. In the past, due to the irrational structure and low degree of intensification, agricultural products were sold hard and farmers’ incomes grew slowly. To solve