Agriculture
extensive and is varied and includes 75% of the incomes by
exports. Traditionally the principal culture is the coffee
(Colombia is the second world producer), but the reduction
of the production and the fall of the prices contributed to
substitution by other products as sugar, the bananas, the
flowers and cotton.
The export of the articles manufactured, textile, leather
articles, products metal, chemical, medicinal, and cement,
increased considerably.
Colombia also has reserves crude oil and its deposits of coal
are most important of Latin America, but its development was
rather slow.
The country had a stable development of the GDP (Gross domestic
product) of an average of 4% during the Eighties and Nineties
although the budget deficit increased because of the rise
of expenses of safety to solve violence.
Colombia is member of the Andean Pact and the Latin-American
Association of Integration (ALADI). In more it is allied with
Venezuela and Mexico in a programme of zone of free trade
during ten years.
The United States, Spain, Germany, Japan and Venezuela is
the principal trade partners of Colombia.
