发展农产品加工业是新时期我国产业结构调整的一项重要任务，是农业可持续发展的关键措施，是增加农民收入的主要渠道。农产品加工业依赖于制造业的发展，依赖于加工技术的发展，依赖于食品科学与技术的发展，也依赖于现代农业的发展。为了实现全面建设小康社会的奋斗目标，发展农产品加工业，必须首先建设农产品加工技术创新体系。文章讨论了我国当前发展农产品加工业的必要性，农产品加工业发展存在的主要问题，提出了加快农产品加工技术创新体系建设的具体建议。

To develop the agro-food industry is an important task of industry restructuing in China, which is a key measure for agricultural sustainable development, and a main resource to increase farmers' income. The agro-food industry depends on the development of the manufacture industry, the development of the processing technology, the development of the food science and technology, and also the development of the modernization of agriculture. In order to realize a more prosperous society and to develop the agro-fcx>d industry,the first priority should be to build technical innovation system of agro-food industry. The necessity of the technical innovation system for agro-food industry, and the main problems lying in the agro-food industry were discussed in this paper. The detail suggestions,on how to quickly build the technical innovation system of agro-food industry was put forward.