Mexico floods decimate agriculture in Tabasco state

OSTUACAN, Mexico – The floods that forced hundreds of thousands from their homes in Tabasco have also wiped out agricultural production in the Gulf Coast state, one of Mexico's main producers of everything from chocolate and citrus to sugar cane, officials said Thursday.

The massive flooding, which is now in its second week and at one point left 80 percent of Tabasco underwater, will be Mexico's most costly natural disaster since a hurricane devastated Cancun and Cozumel in 2005, insurers said Thursday.

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