Ecuador AGRICULTURE
A peasant family in the Sierra
Courtesy Inter-American Foundation (Miguel Sayago)
Agriculture and fishing were the country's largest employers in
the late 1980s, providing nearly half of all export earnings.
Including livestock raising, forestry, and fishing, agriculture
generated almost 16 percent of the GDP in 1986 and nearly 18
percent in 1987. The three principal export crops--bananas, coffee,
and cocoa--alone accounted for 2.4 percent of the total GDP in
1986, while livestock raising contributed 5.3 percent of the GDP,
and forestry and fishing contributed 1.1 and 1.9 percent,
respectively.
Data as of 1989
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