Economy of Guaitarilla

It is of considerable importance acculturation peasant campaigns across multiple training and testing of new varieties of crops in traditional products such as wheat and corn. Given by agronomists sent by the ICA. And the DRI. So is national recognition of the high yield and quality of wheat harvested as a Second Yacuanquer racing. An average harvest Guitarrilla indicates that collects around 800 t of wheat to millers catering to Pasto and Cali Ipiales.

Maize production is high, but does not supply regional needs, the traditional planting of yellow that takes a year to give the harvest, therefore local agrarian policy indicates that gradually accepts the farmer planting the white variety yields two crops a year.

These two crops are predominant resulting in extensive bicultural, leaving aside other products needed in the basket as fruits and vegetables that are given high quality, except that to keep rotating soil fertility make some farmers without being sufficient for local consumption and requiring to bring them elsewhere. We are not self-sufficient in coffee beans.beans, parsnips, and ripe banana maqueño or Creole, especially in temperate climatic regime sidewalks as The Yunguita, Alex, El Cid and San Nicolas.

Growing fruit and tree tomato and table, beans, cured, feijoa, peach, pear, growing culturizar common mulberry grows wild everywhere, which means that the training process UMATA advise on alternative crops. and establishing a real experimental farm and instruct on the marketing