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YEMEN
Budget: Income .............. $2.3 Billion
Expenditure ... $2.6 Billion

Main Crops:
Grain, fruits, vegetables, qat (mildly narcotic shrub), coffee, cotton; dairy products, poultry, beef; fish.

Natural Resources:
Petroleum, fish, rock salt, marble, small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper, fertile soil in west.

Major Industries: Crude oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing; handicrafts; small aluminum products factory; cement .
NATIONAL GNP