For more than 300 years, sugar production was the country’s most important industry, but after decades of sharply declining profitability, the sugar industry was shut down in 2005. In recent years, the importance of agriculture to the economy has diminished, but still around one-fifth of the labor force is in the sector.
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Nowadays, mainly coconuts, cotton, yams, sweet potatoes, peanuts, vegetables and bananas are grown. The land that used to house sugar plantations is often used for tourism. About a fifth of the country’s area is cultivated.
Two fifths of the land area is wooded, but forestry has no economic significance for the country.
Commercial fishing is a small but growing industry. A catch processing facility has been built with the assistance of Japan. For St. Kitts defense and foreign policy, please check themotorcyclers.
FACTS – AGRICULTURE
Agriculture’s share of GDP
1.2 percent (2018)
Percentage of land used for agriculture
23.1 percent (2016)
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