| ECONOMY The
natives of Puerto GAlera primarily lived by fishing, crude farming, and hunting.
They raised animals and planted rice, corn, sweet potatoes and other root crops,
using the slash-and-burn method until the Spaniards introduced to them the use
of plow. Today, however, most of the
locals are engaged in various sorts of tourism-related livelihood. The others
are either into farming, livestock raising, fishing, or minimg. The
major produce of the town includes rice, banana, corn, vegetables, root crops,
mango, and coconut. Livestock production consists of chicken, cattle, pig and
goat. While land quarrying and mining yield non-metallic minerals like marble,
sand gravel and boulders for construction. The marble mine in Barangay San Isidro,
which boasts of 17 shades of marble and which has become a major tourist attraction,
is estimated to last for centuries of mining operation. |
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