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Chapter Introduction Jamaica is primarily an agricultural country. The sector (including fisheries, forestry and pasture) occupies over half of the country's land area (602,674 hectares of the island’s 1,100,784 hectares) and provides nearly 2/5 of the employment opportunities. Agriculture presently contributes greatly to environmental degradation. This result from the clearing of unstable slopes for cultivation, slash and burn methods often causing forest fires, and runoff of agricultural chemicals into groundwater, rivers, and the sea.
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