ABSTRACT
The theme of our conference is the role of the primary sector in economic development. One of the major aspects of that theme is the complex interdependence between the primary and manufacturing sectors in the development process, in which they compete with each other for the common pool of scarce inputs and also complement each other in a variety of ways. Much of this interdependence is mediated through the foreign trade sector and it is to this particular feature that the present paper is addressed.
