For more than one reason the hurricane season in Caribbean causes some of the sectors that have traditionally been the mainstay of the region’s economy to become afflicted with compulsive attacks of jitters. One of those is agriculture, a sector that is both crucial to food security in the heavily dependent territories as well as an important sector for the reason that it contributes – in some instances significantly – to export earnings.
Serious hurricanes have been known to negatively impact the agriculture sector in some Caribbean territories in the region, as was reportedly the case in Jamaica where, this year as in previous years, the loss of farm produce associated with the country’s fresh fruit and agro-processed products to the United States.