Jamaica's most important export crop is sugarcane, from which
rum and molasses are also made. The nation's other agricultural
exports include the famed Blue Mt. coffee, bananas, citrus
fruits, and yams. Most of these crops are grown on large
plantations. Small farms also produce ginger, cocoa, pimento,
ackee, chickens, and goats. Mining is a major source of wealth;
since large, easily accessible deposits of bauxite were
discovered in 1942, Jamaica has become one of the world's
leading suppliers of this ore. Along with the alumina made from
it, bauxite accounts for almost half of Jamaica's foreign
exchange. Tourism, centered on the north coast, is the biggest
earner of exchange. Among Jamaica's internationally known resort
areas are Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, and Negril. Clothing
constitutes the chief export item of the manufacturing sector.
Jamaica's other industries (mainly concentrated in the Kingston
area) include oil refining, sugar and tobacco processing, flour
milling, and the production of rum, metal, pap