Padang Terap

Padang Terap is a district and also a parliamentary constituency in Kedah, Malaysia.
 
This district administration centre known as Kuala Nerang. Between areas which includes in this district was Naka and Pedu.
 
In Kedah and Perlis, we can find out many areas in name with "Padang" such as Padang Besar ,Padang Lalang ,Padang Perahu ,Padang Hang ,Padang Mat Sirat. 
 
Padang reflect to flat area that had no large tree or only grown this seldom bush was brought either his wasteland and also drought effect which occurred four each year month in this area where little pouring of rain from 50mm rain once month. 
 
Green areas Padang Terap was those areas grown a type of resilient tree drought and sticky in call Pokok Terap (Artocarpus elasticus). As such Padang Terap named from this tree.

Developments in Daerah Padang Terap are influenced by economic ties with nearest the state namely Perlis which functions as Pusat Wilayah Negara given states in North Peninsular Malaysia. 
 
Padang Terap primary commodity is sugar in take out by Syarikat Gula Padang Terap. Here found sugar processing plant and also wide sugarcane plantation. This sugar factory by process sugar from farm it also process imported sugar because farm product not enough in order to meet factory capacity.  

After all processing industry sugar also has benefit because raw sugar is pretty cheap in world market compared to local produced.  Besides that, sugarcane plantation has variety crop covering such as banana plant and pineapples.