Agriculture output 305m per annum

Mon, Mar 7th 2011, 10:00 PM

By ALISON LOWE
Business Reporter

alowe@tribunemedia.net

Agriculture could be generating $305 million per year towards Bahamian Gross Domestic Product (GDP), compared to the $40.2 million recorded in the most recent statistics, if proper reporting and recording of all agricultural outputs took place, a Department of Agriculture official said yesterday.

Leslie Minns, a statistician with the Department, said in his most recently-issued report on agriculture's contribution to the Bahamian economy that there has been "under-reporting" of agricultural output since the first census in 1978.

"Agriculture in the Bahamas is perceived as one of the sectors with little economic activit ...

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