sentences:  Lack of credit for planting, a drop in world cotton prices, and competition from Chile discouraged cotton production in the mid-1980s.Production of cotton dropped significantly in the 1980s, and the 1989 crop of 22,000 tons was less than a third of that produced in 1985
  
  Unlike in other Central American countries, political squabbles over who would control the plantations and shipment of the crop prevented bananas from becoming the major export earner in Nicaragua.Bananas, a native fruit of tropical Asia, were introduced to Nicaragua early in the colonial period.