Tourism, which is the largest foreign exchange earner, showed improvement as well.
Between 1986 and 1990 the number of tourists to Kenya rose from 604,000 to 702,000, making tourism the prime foreign exchange earner.
The price of its principal foreign exchange earner, cotton, has dropped 50 percent on the world market in recent years.
Tourism is a potentially large foreign exchange earner and a source of economic growth.
Tourism is currently the second largest foreign exchange earner in the country, and the government hopes to increase this share.
Soybeans have been a major foreign exchange earner for most of last century.
Agriculture used to be the principal foreign exchange earner of Nigeria.
He holds the record of being the highest individual foreign exchange earner in entertainment.
This makes jewelry one of the country's top five foreign exchange earners.
Tourism is one of the fastest-growing economic resources and became the country's leading foreign exchange earner in 2011.