1. COLOMBIAN AGRICULTURE

2. Colombia is mainly agricultural and this activity is more widespread industry of the Colombian people. Its importance for both related products for domestic consumption and export.
Due to the relief and the different climates that owns, the country is rich in a multitude of products and a variety of them. The most important agricultural products to Colombia, from the economic point of view, are coffee, sugarcane, cotton, banana, tobacco, gold, emeralds, platinum, iron, copper, salt, cattle. The main agricultural areas are located in the Andean zone and the coastal plains.

3. LOWLANDS PRODUCTS
BANANAS This fruit is for the country an export item. Colombia produces excellent quality bananas in the areas of Santa Marta (Urabá), where the temperature is high all year round and the warm valleys of Antioquia, Chocó (Baudó) and Tumaco (Nariño). PLANTAIN The warm valleys of Caldas, Valle, Antioquia and Tolima.
RICE Rice is plant native to Asia and power base of millions of men. Today is grown on all continents. Colombia produces warm wet type land - dry at 160 meters high. The rice growing areas include the valleys and plains hot and very humid. These include crops Cauca Valley, the plains of the department of Bolivar, the valley in Tolima, Huila, Cesar and Boyacá-Meta area.
COTTON The cotton plant is typical of the warm and temperate with temperatures of degrees. It is one of the products that has been developed in the country, thanks to domestic demand from the textile industry. Cotton grows well in the departments of the Caribbean: Magdalena, Cesar, Atlántico, Córdoba and Bolívar. Also in Tolima, Valle, Meta and Huila.
SUGAR CANE It is used in the production of panela, staple food for much of the Colombian people in making honey, liqueurs, sweets, drinks, alcohol and refined sugar . The department of Valle del Cauca is the most productive region of the country (they are 21 sugar mills). It is also grown in the departments of Cauca, Risaralda, Cesar, Norte de Santander, Tolima, Caldas, Cundinamarca and the coast in the department of Bolivar.

4. LOWLAND PRODUCTS
TOBACCO The ChibchaS smoked it in their religious rites. The sheet provides raw material for cigarette and cigar industry. Tobacco areas are in departments that have warm climates: Bolivar, Magdalena, Santander Tolima and especially the South, which produces more than half the Colombian snuff. MAIZE This is American origin cereal. It occurs in all thermal but fertile lowlands and gives three crops a year. The corn plant is also industrial flour is removed from it, oils, beverages and paper. There are many known varieties of corn, which facilitates extension of crops. The most important maize growing areas are in the departments of Antioquia, Boyaca, Cundinamarca, Cordoba, Meta, Magdalena and Cauca Valley, although maize is grown all over the country, even in the cold, which takes a bit longer to grow .
COFFEE Coffee is the most important agricultural product of Colombia. It is their main export. Coffee is a crop of temperate and own high. The best yields are obtained between 1,300 and 1,800 m high, though it grows from sea level to 2000 m. Moisture and land demands appropriate elements: a temperature of degrees. In Colombia, the best part is called Eje Cafetero, understanding the gentle slopes of the mountains of Quindío (department first producer), Caldas, Risaralda, Antioquia, Tolima and Valle del Cauca, which are the administrative sections of higher yields. Cundinamarca, Huila, Cauca and Norte de Santander, are other intermediate production departments. Colombia is among the largest producers of coffee in the world and ranks first for the softness and aroma of the bean. Colombian coffee is quoted at best price for their softness and fragrance. 50% of coffee exports to the U.S. is, also traded with West Germany, Sweden, Holland, Spain and other countries.

5. TEMPERATE LANDS PRODUCTS
BEANS Figure in the popular diet especially in Antioquia, Caldas and Valle del Cauca. YUCCA Nor need daily food between man and still warm temperate lands. COCOA Like corn, cacao is native to America, is famous for its aroma and flavor. It is found in the wild in the Amazon and Orinoco. It is grown mainly in Huila, Valle, Cauca, Santander, Antioquia, Tolima and Nariño, but production is not enough and it is necessary to import. OILSEEDS Oilseeds are: sesame, soybean, peanut, coconut, palm. its fruits are the basis for the production of oils. They occur in most terrain warm Santander, Meta, Tolima and Caquetá. OTHER PRODUCTS The fique, quinine, rubber and fruit.

6. COLD GROUND PRODUCTS
WHEAT Use of this cereal back to antiquity, is grown in cold thermal floor temperatures 10 to 16 degrees, as very important in food and industry. The wheat production centers are: Nariño, Cundinamarca and Boyacá. BARLEY This cereal was brought in by the Spanish Conquest. It is used for human food and cattle. It is a raw material in the brewing industry. It is cultivated like wheat, in the cold lands of Cundinamarca, Boyacá and Nariño. POTATO This tuber native to America was indigenous staple food and main line remains in the nutrition of the Colombian people. It occurs throughout the central and eastern cordilleras: Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Nariño, Antioquia, Huila and Santander departments are the main producers.