>>212795031 (OP)It may be funny, but actually taking steps in the added value chain is the goal of a growing economy - even if it as banal as making sauce out of a tomato and putting it in a can - a truly poor economy doesn't even have the industry for THAT.
https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/explore/treemap?exporter=country-616&year=1995
For instance in 1995's Poland, the biggest agricultular product we exported was literally "wood sawn lengthwise" - planks. By 2005 it was already superseded by Toilet Paper and Wood Carpentry for construction, a big jump in technology, even if it seems basic.