Agriculture:
Agriculture, foresting, and fishing makes up about 1/4 of Haiti's GDP (gross domestic product). It also employs about 2/3 of the labor force. However, mountains limit growth because they cover a lot of the land. Haiti's top profiting crops include coffee, mangoes, and cocoa. Sugarcane used to but is having intense competition and declining prices.
Mining: Haiti has a small mining industry. Bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, and marble are the most extensively extracted minerals in Haiti.
Manufacturing:
The leading industries in Haiti produce beverages, butter, cement, detergent, edible oils, flour, refined sugar, soap, and cloth. Growth has been slowed down by lack of capitol investment. In 2004 industry accounted for about 20 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), and less than 10 percent of the labor force worked in industrial production
Agriculture, foresting, and fishing makes up about 1/4 of Haiti's GDP (gross domestic product). It also employs about 2/3 of the labor force. However, mountains limit growth because they cover a lot of the land. Haiti's top profiting crops include coffee, mangoes, and cocoa. Sugarcane used to but is having intense competition and declining prices.
Mining: Haiti has a small mining industry. Bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, and marble are the most extensively extracted minerals in Haiti.
Manufacturing:
The leading industries in Haiti produce beverages, butter, cement, detergent, edible oils, flour, refined sugar, soap, and cloth. Growth has been slowed down by lack of capitol investment. In 2004 industry accounted for about 20 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), and less than 10 percent of the labor force worked in industrial production