Question

What are the various activities undertaken in the primary sector, secondary sector and tertiary sector?

Answer 1

• Primary sector includes mining and quarrying, poultry farming, fishing, animal husbandry, agriculture, forestry.
• Secondary sector includes manufacturing activities.
• Tertiary sector activities include insurance, services, tourism, health, education, banking, communication, transport, trade.
• Goods and services are produced through activities in these sectors.
• These activities are known as economic activities which add value to the national income.
• The world’s largest tertiary activity is the tourism industry, the total revenue is 40 percent of GDP and there are 250 million registered jobs.
• In a tourist place, many local people get employment in services like special shops serving the tourists, entertainment, transport, meals, accomodation.
• Tourism fosters growth in craft industries, retail trading, and infrastructure industries.
• Some tourist regions attract tourists all round the year, whereas some of the tourist spots are seasonal in nature.
• Primary activities involve utilization of the earth’s resources such as minerals, vegetation, water, land, raw materials.
• The age of industrial revolution catapulted the importance and actual development of mining and its importance has been growing ever since. Many raw materials that are required for manufacturing goods are obtained from mining activities.
• For economic development of a country, the manufacturing industry is regarded as the backbone of development.
• Manufacturing industry increases employment, increases trade of a nation through exports and imports, it helps in modernising agriculture.