The year 1962 was a good one for Philippine export agriculture.
Yes it is true that the explicit aim of the Marcos regime's development strategy for export agriculture was "growth in output and export earnings".
Many World Bank publications use the notion of urban bias to support policies oriented toward export agriculture.
A much stronger emphasis on all forms of export agriculture, particularly through smallholder production, was one way of achieving this.
Trade grew on the coast in response to the impetus of export agriculture.
Since the liberalization of Chile's economy in the 1980s export agriculture, mainly commodity products, grew and diversified.
They cleared land, built houses and outbuildings, and worked on the large plantations that dominated export agriculture.
Ironically, the simultaneous trend toward export agriculture continued.
In these areas large commercial operations specialized in export agriculture, because that was where the most money could be made.
The rich owned large plantations that dominated export agriculture and used black slaves.