Of the municipality’s total land area, 28% or 5,682.70 comprises the agricultural zone. Agricultural land in the municipality are planted to major crops like rice covering 277 hectares irrigated and 509.00 hectares rainfed; rootcrops with 704.00 hectares; corn with 20 hectares and minor crops such as orchard with 174.00 hectares. Fishery resources cover 448 hectares while diversified crops has 3,560.00 hectares. It ranks second to farming as the main source of livelihood. Species in sea water includes herrings, squids, groupers, lobster, Spanish mackerel, seads and other pelagic species.
For livestock and poultry, records at the Municipal Agricultural Office showed that the municipality has a total of 9,695 heads of livestock and 9,075 for poultry. This is broken down into cattle, carabao, goat, hog and dogs for livestock, and chiken and duck for poultry.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
With regards to industry, the municipality has no major industry except for small/home cottage industries that are abaca and forestry based. This consists of handicraft, bamboo craft, furniture making, metal craft and other micro industries. All of these are family run business on small capital.
