Economy of Mercaderes

At that time abounded crops, work, food; money circulating and trade worked perfectly, mode of robberies on roads and highways was unknown, there were armed groups and coca traffickers; Sunday market day left over workers arriving for work, even Nariño, to deal with maize crops. Discussions of each other revolved around the production of grain (corn); the economy rode on the shoulders of farmers, laborers, porters and guisanderas.

The roads in harvest seasons were invaded by mule trains laden with corn, came to the corn capital of Colombia by the four cardinal points of merchants. The entire cargo of corn was transported by mule to town, leaving all production stored in different warehouses to trucks then arrived to pick up the grain; the streets every day this daily was observed.

Year after year an atmosphere of relative social prosperity lived until the corn crop was gradually declining in production; because of the long periods of drought, why the paisas decided to leave the territory.

Other causes also influenced this factor was the deterioration of the mountains that were demolished in the beginning for planting corn , the land was losing its fertility well until soil nutrients were depleted; this was reflected and reflected in the low yields. Perhaps because of the action of burning to get rid of weeds in a planting another, and climate factor, which was a presence in prolonged drought and