Question

What are the non-farm production activities taking place in your region? Make a short list.

Answer 1

If a person lives in a large city, then there are plethora of non-farm activities and job opportunities for people. Some of them are given below

• Activities in large automobile manufacturing companies
• Large electronic manufacturing companies’ activities.
• People working in large and small Information Technology (IT) companies.
• People working in various services such as Banking, Insurance, Post Office etc.
• People involved in the logistics industry.
• People working in the transportation industry.
• Activities associated with the tourism industry.
• People involved in activities related to large, medium and small hotels, restaurants etc.
• In cities there are many schools and colleges. Hence there are activities related to teaching, support staff to run the education institutions.
• Activities in many outlets where 2 wheelers, 3 wheelers and 4 wheelers are sold.
• There would be research institutions, therefore one can find activities related to research in various fields carried out by scientists.
• Activities related to administration work of the various Government departments.
• There are many hospitals in large cities, therefore there are work activities of doctors, nurses and many support staff to run the healthcare.
• Large malls, medium and small size shops are present in large cities.
• There are activities related to the communication sector.
• In large coastal cities there are activities related to fishing.