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The truth is that the historical profitability of planting sugarcane has been sharply decreasing since 1763, despite an overall increase in sugar con-sumption worldwide over the last several decades.
The revenue from agriculture in 1763 was primarily from sugar cane and is estimated to be £12,000,000 (Ward, 1988), which is the equivalent of £2,569,010,563.25 in 2018, according to the Bank of England’s inflation calculator. This translates to roughly US$3,155,926,716 in today’s value, which is a much more sizable sum than the sugar cane industry in Jamaica produces today. Compare this to the 2019 figure of US$ 219,166,000 in food exports that Jamaica made, according to the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (2020).