While some countries will use exports to recover, Falcon sees Indonesia relying even more heavily on agriculture. The whole Indonesian economy has become unstuck, he says, and wages and employment will have to come from agriculture. People the world over hope that the East Asian crisis will soon be a distant memory, not least of all because the crisis has such far-reaching repercussions. The extent to which agriculture plays an engine role in the economic recovery will naturally vary from country to country. There is little doubt, however, that many more people will be paying closer attention to agricultural issues than they have in the recent past.
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