Other Crops

Although much of the lowland Nicaragua has a climate conducive to growing sugarcane, poor transportation has limited production to roughly the same area in northwest Nicaragua where bananas are grown. Like all other agricultural products, sugar production was severely hit by the United States trade embargo on Nicaraguan products form 1985 to 1990. Production of raw sugarcane stood at 2,300 tons in 1989. Tobacco and sesame are both produced for export. Beans, corn, rice, and sorghum continue to be widely grown and consumed domestically.