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    SUGAR IS LIFE. JAM Association of Clubs, Westmaroland, Jamaica , 2007 Some Facts About Agriculture Page 2 | 7 in Jamaica A Brief History of Sugar Production In Jamaica Pages 2000. When processed agricultural products are included it is about 16% | «Agriculture employs about 22% of the labour force ( approximately 250,000 people) and supporss soime 150,000 smal c ‘butes significantly to the food see tion and helps reduce what otherwise would be even worse unem- ployment and poverty J+ However, in the 2002 budget, about 64% of the expenditures were used to service government debt, while only 2% was allocated to the agricultural sector. Yo Some Facts About the Jamaican Sugar Industry | Jamaica’s ‘8870-80 exchange annually, This is about 50% of the total value of Jan annual agricultural exports. «The sugar industry is the third largest earner of foreign ex can economy after bauxite and tourism, (Remi ‘working overseas eam more foreign exchange than baux- | ite and tourism combined.) | the second largest single employer of labour ng etop and 28,000 out of ood directly or | «The sugar industry and employs about 41,000 people di crop. Approximately 200,000 people get their ‘+ About 40,000 ha of land are under sugar eu! are on estate farms and 34% located on sm dependently owned farms, | ican sugar indusiry is not the first time sugar production has been plagued by serious shortcomings. Indeed, the whole history of sugar in Jamaica is intertwined with 500 years of cole- nial domination, slavery, forced migra gar W © Sugar producti ‘manufacturing n Europe. «The Spanish colonizers first brought sugar cane to the island, but did not cultivate much of it. Large-scale sugar cane cultivation be- ‘gan afier England wrested control over Jamaica in 1655. As the indigenous Taino population had been almost completely wiped out the British tumed to the enslavement of Africans to supply steady Inbor for the plantations. «Resistance to slavery began as mutinies on the slave ships and con- tinued on the plantations in a number of ways: running away and ing maroon communities, sabotage, arson, work slow- 1d stoppages, and full-scale slave revolts. n of slavery 1834-38 was followed by workers leaving the plantations in mass to establish free villages in the hills of Ja- taica, By the end of the 19th ¢, Jamaican farmers produced much of the island’s food «The removal of protective duties, competition by Cuban cane sugar and European beet sugar producers brought Jamaican sugar exports almost to a halt. 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