Industries: mining (coal and asbestos), wood pulp, sugar, soft
drink concentrates
Industrial production growth rate: 3.7% (FY95/96)
Electricity—production: 415 million kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 49.4% hydro: 50.6% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)
Electricity—consumption: 986 million kWh (1996)
Electricity—exports: 0 kWh (1996)
Electricity—imports: 571 million kWh (1996)
note: imports about 60% of its electricity from South Africa
Agriculture—products: sugarcane, cotton, maize, tobacco, rice,
citrus, pineapples, corn, sorghum, peanuts; cattle, goats, sheep
Exports: $972 million (f.o.b., 1998)
Exports—commodities: soft drink concentrates, sugar, wood pulp,
cotton yarn, citrus and canned fruit (1996)