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Agriculture's contribution to GDP fell to 4% in 2013 from over 5% in 2000 (Table 1.1). The sector has not fully recovered from the devastation left by hurricane Ivan in 2004, which caused the destruction of 90% of Grenada's nutmeg trees (section 4.1). Grenada is the world's second largest producer of nutmeg. Since the previous TPR of Grenada, the production of nutmeg has been recovering although, affected by the nutmeg wilt disease, the industry barely reached 10% of its pre hurricane level. Nevertheless, the share of agricultural exports in total exports has been growing and reached 46.5% of total exports in 2011; nutmeg accounts for some 35% of agricultural exports.