The Shire's economy has been closely linked to the use of the resources the environment provides is, therefore, that the industry has been intimately tied mountain agriculture sector. The two main industries in the region are the meat and eighths as well in recent years there have been small or micro food companies.
The use of pig meat in the Sierra, dates from ancient times, but their use is stopped during the period of Muslim rule. Moreover, the salting and drying techniques in cellar are known from the Roman Empire. As we assume that home the killings are practiced since ancient times. If we add to this tradition, other factors of primary origin (cattle, pasture, climate, water) and secondary (business, application, reinvestment of surpluses, external incentives, accessibility), gives birth as a result of the meat industry in the second mid-nineteenth century. The municipalities where these industries will emerge first in towns near the railroad (Jabugo, Cumbres Mayores or Cortegana). The meat industry represent county stronger: there are companies located throughout the region, the Iberian pig farming in extensive livestock is more important, there is skilled labor, are also covered by the PDO Jabugo, promises to a good present and a future for these industries.
In the last years of the seventeenth century monk Pierre Perignon Don discovers the virtues of wine, champagne on all, as clogging. Will from that moment when you start developing the cork industry and closers. The abundance of forest of cork oak in the Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche inviting foreign capital, Catalan and Portuguese, to invest here. It will be in Higuera de la Sierra and Cortegana where the cork industry came late nineteenth century. The two most common practices of the cork industry in the county are rolling mills and cork stopper. The production of cork, and, by extension, the companies responsible for their manufacture are in a very critical time of recession. The new wine clogging, screw or synthetic, are destroying the market for cork, and new uses of the bark of the cork still not effective in these family businesses, many of whom are being close down. The present and the future of these companies is a great unknown.
Recent decades have brought us new business experiences, like the traditional ones, are based on the use of the primary sector and conservation techniques already known, so are the new micro agrifood. Dairies have emerged, based on the livestock of goats, and canneries. Traditionally chestnut total production was exported with little manufacturing, thanks to these enterprises began to make a product more elaborate.
The future of the industrial sector of the Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche apprehend the past through positive values and become the basis for progress. The bet is released by the quality, innovation, respect for the environment, ultimately for sustainable development.
In the last years of the seventeenth century monk Pierre Perignon Don discovers the virtues of wine, champagne on all, as clogging. Will from that moment when you start developing the cork industry and closers. The abundance of forest of cork oak in the Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche inviting foreign capital, Catalan and Portuguese, to invest here. It will be in Higuera de la Sierra and Cortegana where the cork industry came late nineteenth century. The two most common practices of the cork industry in the county are rolling mills and cork stopper. The production of cork, and, by extension, the companies responsible for their manufacture are in a very critical time of recession. The new wine clogging, screw or synthetic, are destroying the market for cork, and new uses of the bark of the cork still not effective in these family businesses, many of whom are being close down. The present and the future of these companies is a great unknown.
Recent decades have brought us new business experiences, like the traditional ones, are based on the use of the primary sector and conservation techniques already known, so are the new micro agrifood. Dairies have emerged, based on the livestock of goats, and canneries. Traditionally chestnut total production was exported with little manufacturing, thanks to these enterprises began to make a product more elaborate.
The future of the industrial sector of the Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche apprehend the past through positive values and become the basis for progress. The bet is released by the quality, innovation, respect for the environment, ultimately for sustainable development.
