To explore how digital technology empowers the high-end transformation of the agricultural product processing industry, a panel dataset consisting of provincial data and listed companies in the agricultural product processing industry from 2012 to 2021 was utilized to study the comprehensive impact and mechanism of digital technology in the high-end transformation of the agricultural product processing industry. The results indicate that: 1) The role of digital technology in empowering the high-end transformation of agricultural product processing industry is significant. The empowerment effects of digital components, digital infrastructure, and digital network technology decrease in sequence, while the empowerment effects of central, eastern, and western regions decrease in sequence. 2) The digital technology empowers the high-end transformation of agricultural product processing industry by promoting consumption upgrading and reducing corporate financial leverage. 3) The quality of institutions and macroeconomic growth rate plays an important positive regulatory role in the process of digital technology empowering the high-end transformation of agricultural product processing industry. Suggestions of vigorously developing digital technology, optimizing the macroeconomic environment, and increasing support for the application of digital technology in agricultural product processing industry are proposed in the end of this study.
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