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'Ja. can earn U.S. $2.5b from agriculture' |
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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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