The main economic activity of the
municipality of Sheep is based on agriculture and livestock. As for holding
food crops such as snuff, cassava, maize, sesame, yam, avocado and smaller
scale vegetables and fruit develop. At the present time the maize and cassava
have taken great interest due to the implementation of industrial processes in
the department related to the production of starches that will later be used in
generation of fuel gas, processes that require large amounts of this material
premium. But economic history is marked with sheep farming and snuff process,
activity which was