Question

DEFINE ABOUT AGRO BASED AND MINERAL BASED INDUSTRIES.

Answer 1

●●Agro-based Industry
○○Mineral-based Industry
●●1. These industries derive their raw materials from agriculture.
○○1. These industries derive their raw materials from minerals.


●●2. They mostly produce consumer goods.
○○2. These industries produce both consumer and value based goods.
●●3. Example: Sugar, jute, textile, vegetable oil etc.
○○3. Example: Iron and steel, engineering, ship building, machine tools, etc.

●●agro ○○mineral

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Answer 2

agro based industries are those industries which use agricultural products as their raw material. e.g- fishery, forestry, etc.

mineral based are those industries which use raw material from Earth's crust(mineral). e.g- steel industry.