Abstract: This paper discusses the importance, necessity, constraints and development countermeasures of developing Konjacindustry for poverty alleviation program in the Zhaotong city. Through analysis, it shows that growing Konjacin Zhaotong has many advantages: suitable for the mountainous in poor cultivation areas, good foundation, optimistic market prospects, and comparatively high benefits. However, there exist three major problems in current process: incomplete understanding of its importance; lack of guidance, support, and popularization, and especially the promotion of science and technology lag behind; with the infrastructure and the enterprise being weak, small, and feeble. To promote the development of Zhaotong Konjacindustry in the future for poverty alleviation program, it needs to overcome six short boards: the government supportment, scale planting, enterprise, integration, specialization, socialization and marketization.