Question

State 3 types of economic activities involvrd in the transformation from a plant to a finished product

Answer 1

Answer:

Gurpreet, Madho and Tina were walking through

the village where they saw a farmer tilling land. The

farmer told them that he was growing wheat and had

just added manure to the soil to make it more fertile.

He told the children that the wheat would fetch a

good price in the mandi from where it would be taken

to factories to make bread and biscuits from flour.

This transformation from a plant to a finished

product involves three types of economic activities.

These are primary, secondary and tertiary activities.

Primary activities include all those connected

with extraction and production of natural resources.

Agriculture, fishing and gathering are good examples.

Secondary activities are concerned with the processing

of these resources. Manufacturing of steel, baking of

bread and weaving of cloth are examples of this activity.

Tertiary activities provide support to the primary and

secondary sectors through services. Transport, trade,

banking, insurance and advertising are examples of

tertiary activities.

Agriculture is a primary activity. It includes growing

crops, fruits, vegetables, flowers and rearing of livestock.

In the world, 50 per cent of persons are engaged in

agricultural activity. Two-thirds of India’s population is

still dependent on agriculture.

Favourable topography of soil and climate are vital

for agricultural activity. The land on which the crops

are grown is known as arable land (Fig. 4.1). In the map

you can see that agricultural activity is concentrated in

those regions of the world where suitable factors for the

growing of crops exist