Villanueva's economy is based on the
primary sector, with certain agroindustrial developments that add value to form
a processing sector or secondary. Broadly based development in the extractive
sector and primary sector (Agriculture) or a processing sector secondary sector
and commercial sector, banking services and appears as tertiary sector. Villanueva
has based its development on agriculture, but particularly in the commercial
cultivation of African palm, rice, sorghum and cotton. The cattle breeding,
fattening up and takes second place in the activities of the agricultural
sector to play a