_#_Agriculture: accounts for about 9% of GDP, 22% of work force, and 17% of exports; commercial crops—sugarcane, bananas, coffee, citrus, potatoes, and vegetables; livestock and livestock products include poultry, goats, milk; not self-sufficient in grain, meat, and dairy products
_#_Illicit drugs: illicit cultivation of cannabis; transshipment point for ships carrying cocaine and cannabis from central and South America to North America
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $1.2 billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $1.45 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $27 million; Communist countries (1974-89), $349 million
_#_Currency: Jamaican dollar (plural—dollars); 1 Jamaican dollar (J$) = 100 cents
_#_Exchange rates: Jamaican dollars (J$) per US$1—8.106 (January 1991), 7.184 (1990), 5.7446 (1989), 5.4886 (1988), 5.4867 (1987), 5.4778 (1986), 5.5586 (1985)
_#_Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March
_*Communications #_Railroads: 370 km, all 1.435-meter standard gauge, single track
_#_Highways: 18,200 km total; 12,600 km paved, 3,200 km gravel, 2,400 km improved earth
_#_Pipelines: refined products, 10 km
_#_Ports: Kingston, Montego Bay