Agriculture: accounts for 10% of GDP; about 90% of cultivated land in sugarcane; other products - tea, corn, potatoes, bananas, pulses, cattle, goats, fish; net food importer, especially rice and fish
Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis for the international drug
trade; heroin consumption and transshipment are growing problems
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $76 million;
Western (non-US) countries (1970-89), $709 million; Communist
countries (1970-89), $54 million
Currency: 1 Mauritian rupee (MauR) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Mauritian rupees (MauRs) per US$1 - 17.755 (January 1995), 17.960 (1994), 17.648 (1993), 15.563 (1992), 15.652 (1991), 14.839 (1990)
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
@Mauritius:Transportation
Railroads: 0 km
Highways: total: 1,800 km paved: 1,640 km unpaved: earth 160 km
Ports: Port Louis