Economy of Guaitarilla

On forests, there are very few eucalyptus groves near-native tree remaining after former abundance and robustness altitude reached, despite being foreign origin; "Pegón well" says the farmer. It is used for timber harvesting, like walnut, oak and lignum vitae still leaves high as burrera and orange.

Unenviable our climate to implement minor plant as aromatic and medicinal herbs, which are of great market today in the country's capital cities, which could result in additional family income and raw or previously treated as a product packaged and centers that would offer Naturopathic doctors proliferating everywhere. In Cidrón way of example, lemongrass (lemongrass), mint, marjoram, chamomile, lemon balm etc. This requires entrepreneurs and motivated by production capacity, supply and marketing outside the local context, naturally accompanied by educational and training process.

In terms of livestock, is a region dedicated to grazing dairy or meat, high-performance, self-sufficient criollo cattle and therefore antañoso worked and what does not quality for consumption by people and only milk capacity per family not properly results in a commercial cattle farm, which there is not.

It tends from Pasto, in the Faculty of Animal Science at the University of Nariño, many years ago the production of minor species or as poultry breeding chickens for egg production and broiler chickens and rabbits and guinea pigs with in this region the best climate and parenting style the best flavor of the region with Finch and El Charco in Ipiales.

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