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Figure 4.9 Main Citrus Exporters in the 1981/82 season.<br />

Others<br />

5%<br />

Narin<br />

12%<br />

Un<br />

3<br />

Cypruvex<br />

66%<br />

Source: Annual Reports of the Agriculture! Inspection Office, Port of Famagusta.<br />

The impact in terms of the trade balance, the change in GDP, per capita income and<br />

the composition of employment is far less obvions, which is relevant considering<br />

both the importance of the sector (see next chapter) and the small size of the<br />

economy. After 1983 Asil Nadir's enterprises quickly assumed the dominant<br />

position formerly occupied by the "state's" Cypruvex (Figure 4.8). The key export<br />

sector (if not, for most of the early period, the key sector of the economy) moved<br />

from a "state" monopoly to effectively a private monopoly with little, so far, visible<br />

signs of improved efficiency from the front end (total volume of sales). This story<br />

comes to an abrupt end in December 1994, when a seriously disabled Sunzest was<br />

taken over by the "state's" Cypruvex. Considering the circumstances, this can not<br />

be viewed as re-nationalisation from a public policy perspective, but seemingly just<br />

the state again providing goods and services not supplied efficiently by private<br />

enterprise.<br />

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