Boyacá, department of agricultural and livestock traditions, is a region where rural property is characterized by smallholdings with frequency of transitory crops like potato and onion (stem onion and bulb onion) with low technology and little technical assistance, limiting a quality production and promoting a poor economy. However, the adaptation of deciduous fruit trees such as apple, pear, plum and peach to this context becomes an alternative to approach social gaps in terms of poverty, unemployment and malnutrition, as well as environmental and developmental issues and its connection with the food production chain. Thus, exposing both the regional agroindustrial problems and the benefits and features of such fruit trees are the basis of this paper, also highlighting its potential and the importance in the improvement of the quality of life of the boyacense habitants.