page_title: Agriculture in Colombia
section_title: History of agriculture in Colombia
hierarchical_section_title: Agriculture in Colombia / History of agriculture in Colombia
caption_attribution_description: Ruins of the Ciudad Perdida, a city built by the Tayrona indians in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia
context_page_description: Agriculture in Colombia refers to all agricultural activities, essential to food, feed, and fiber production, including all techniques for raising and processing livestock within the Republic of Colombia. Plant cultivation and livestock production have continuously abandoned subsistence agricultural practices in favour of technological farming resulting in cash crops which contribute to the economy of Colombia. The Colombian agricultural production has significant gaps in domestic and/or international human and animal sustenance needs.
  The primary agricultural products of Colombia are coffee, cut flowers, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa beans, oilseed, vegetables, fique, panela, forest products; and shrimp. In Colombia, the agricultural politics and policies are determined by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
  The share of agriculture in Colombia's gross domestic product has fallen consistently since 1945, as industry and services have expanded.
caption: Remnants in Ciudad Perdida. The Tairona Culture had developed agricultural techniques in terraces prior to the arrival of the Spaniards.
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