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Wed, 08 February 2012

'Ja. can earn U.S. $2.5b from agriculture' Print E-mail
ja_coa_earn_us_205b_from_agriculture.jpg Jamaica's Finance Minister Audley Shaw says the island has suffered  foreign exchange losses of U.S. $1.3 billion, or ten percent of GDP  as a result of  a dramatic fall in earnings from two key sectors:  bauxite/alumina and tourism and has suggested that aggressive investments in agriculture, particularly agro-processing could fill the vacuum.
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