Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 7/26/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!dlo From: dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Bananas Message-ID: <190@drutx.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 16:22:52 EDT Article-I.D.: drutx.190 Posted: Fri Aug 16 16:22:52 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 04:29:18 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 31 > = From my previous posting. >...The vast >majority of the crops grown in Mexico are staples (corn, beans, wheat, >soybeans, livestock, seafood). About 10% of its cotton 7% of its sugar, >and less than 5% of anything else it produces is exported. Argentina >grows huge amounts of corn and wheat. About 36% of its fruits and >vegetables, 15% meats, 13% wine, beer, and tobacco, and less than 10% of >anything else it produces is exported. Brazil grows wheat, corn, rice >in about the same amounts as tropical fruits. About 29% of its coffee, >11% of its minerals, and less than 10% of anything else it produces is >exported. Nicaragua produces about as much corn as it does bananas. About >36% of its coffee, 12% of its cotton, 6% meats, and less than 5% of anything >else it produces is exported. For El Salvador, 44% of its coffee, 10% of >its cotton, and less than 4% of anything else it produces is exported. >In fact, staples of many kinds (mostly grains) are grown throughout Latin >America; most of which stays inside that particular country. The above percentages came from the _Encyclopedia_Britanica_. After looking them over again, I am not sure whether they mean that it is a percentage of what is produced that is exported or if what is produced accounts for that percentage of the exports. In either case, it didn't add up to 100%. But still, in Nicaragua, for instance, it lists bananas as 1.4% for export. In any case, that means that a lot more than just exported bananas are produced there. David Olson ..!ihnp4!drutx!dlo "To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools". -- Jean de la Bruyere