From the geographical points of view with its various natural resources, in addition to agriculture as the main productive sector, the Regency of Cianjur is also keen to develop tourism and marine industry.

The regency of Cianjur has a great potential in natural resources scattered in three development zones. Northern Cianjur area is planted with various vegetables, tea and accessory plants and most of which is made up of paddy rice fields, and plantations.

The Regent of Cianjur takes the lead in responding to the movement of one million tree cultivation introduced by RI President by doing the same thing simultaneously in the sub district of Sukaresmi

Middle Cianjur areas are planted with rice, tea, coconut and fruits.

Southern Cianjur area produces second crop, tea, rubber, sugar palm, chocolate, coconut and fruits. This area also has relatively still pristine tourist spots such as Jayanti beach, Sereg beach and Apra beach. It is a lowland area consisting of small hills, rice fields and various other fields.

Cianjur has also a great potential in the mining sector of which mining materials groups A and B such as gold are scattered in the sub districts of Campaka and Tanggeung. Whereas mining materials group C consisting of mountainous rock, broken rock, lime and the like scattered in the sub districts of Sukanagara, Takokak, Pagelaran, Tanggeung, Kadupandak, Cibinong, Agrabinta, Sindangbarang and Cidaun. Ferrous sand is especially found in the sub district of Cidaun and it needs investment in order to develop further.

There are also other potentialities such as fishery and agriculture which wait to be developed through optimum agribusiness development system and investment. Agribusiness include all the activities in the agriculture sector starting from providing production infrastructure, production process, post harvest management, processing and marketing.

Tourism sector has been crucial to the increased wholly-regional revenue (PAD). This sector has a lot of potential to contribute to the success of development in the region. The Regency of Cianjur has long been known to have some attractive tourist spots scattered in the sub-districts of Cipanas, Pacet and Sukaresmi with Puncak Pass being the biggest tourist spot so far. Newly introduced tourist spots are emerging in eastern part of North Cianjur area; one of them is a man-made lake Cirata/Jangari which is good for water-loving tourists.

In recent years, the development of tourist spots has been extended to South Cianjur areas which have coastlines and beaches. Jayanti beach. Sereg beach and Apra beach are beautiful and still mostly natural. To make them more attractive tourist destinations will require that prospective investors put their money into the development.

In addition to developing those into more attractive tourist spot, the government of Cianjur Regency is now trying to develop and to maximize the available marine resources that can help accelerate the economic recovery amidst the crisis.

In the coastal areas, the breeding of the so-called Windu shrimps can be developed into profitable venture, because the shrimps of this kind is one of the chief commodities for both domestic and and overseas markets. The regional government has allocated land for the purposes, about 1.000 hectares of land have been provided.

The Regency of Cianjur also has a lot of potential to develop handcraft industry as indicated by the fact that there are more and more hand-crafted products produced in several sub-districts in which these products can also be exported overseas in addition to marketing them domestically.

Gentur lamp, bird cage, hand-crafted bamboo (product), Gentur lamp, ceramics and its ceramics products and kecapi in miniature are among the widely known handy craft  products sold. The tourists who come to Cianjur may also discover typically Cianjuran food products such as tauco, candied fruits, dried eels, spinach-leave crackers and others.