Over concentration of developmental efforts on agriculture in the plains and lowland led to a neglect of the resources of mountain districts where 40 % of the province's people live. Problems of access, capital and skilled manpower beset
the mountain areas, however. The advantages that food industry can offer to initiate development in such areas are (1) low capital and technological requirements, (2) quick turn-round of investment and (3) proximity to a variety of raw material inputs