Commerce

            Commerce and trade in the town basically takes place in the municipal public market in the morning of Tuesdays, Thursday, and Sundays.  The rest of the week, residents either go to the public markets of nearby towns of Moncada, Paniqui and Nampicuan or to the sari-sari stores in their neighborhood.  The public market is a covered structure at the back of the municipal hall.  Beside it is a two-storey commercial building with about six (6) stalls on each floor that was constructed in 1997.  Except for one unit, all stalls have yet to be rented out.

            As of November 30, 1999, there were at least 111 registered business establishments. Most of these, or 97 to be exact, are sari-sari stores.  The other businesses are bakeries, welding shops, rice mills, and a videoke restaurant.

Industry

            In terms of industry, Anao is home to one of the largest poultry hatchery owned by the Vitarich Corporation, an ISO-certified company with a capacity of 12.13 million day-old chicks. There are also a couple of medium-sized piggeries

Agriculture sector

Anao is basically an agricultural municipality.  Seven out of 10 households are engaged in farming and farm-related activities.  Even in its urban center, almost half of the households are engaged in farming.  The barangays of Baguindoc, Don Ramon, San Jose South and San Roque are agricultural communities with almost all households are into agriculture.

          In terms of crops, palay, corn and mongo are the three main crops of the municipality although there are those who occasionally plant beans and vegetables.  A total area of 1,639 is planted to palay.  Of this, 1,236 hectares are irrigated and 403 are rainfed.  Sources of irrigation are mainly deepwell pumps, which irrigate a total area of 1,128 hectares.

            The average yield per hectare of irrigated lands is 63 sacks of palay (50 kilos in dry weight) during the second semester (July to December) while it is 84.69 during the first semester (January to June).

           During the period covering 1990 to 1998, a total of 24.76 hectares of land dedicated to palay has been converted to other land uses such as industrial (5 has), orchard and fishpond (14.7 has)  and roads.