CBSE 2025 · Region 6 · Set 3 · Q26 · 3 marks
Describe the role of primary sector in providing employment.
Marking-scheme solution
(i) Activities that are undertaken by directly using natural resources are commonly known as Primary Sector.
(ii) For example, the cultivation of cotton provides employment to the farmers and farm labourers.
(iii) Similarly, in the case of an activity like dairy, there is dependence on the biological process of the animals and availability of fodder etc. creating employment opportunities in the animal husbandry.
(iv) Similarly, minerals and ores are also natural products. Extraction of the minerals provides employment to the miners.
(v) Since most of the natural products we get are from agriculture, dairy, fishing and forestry, this sector is also called agriculture and related sector, providing employment to the fishermen, milkman, wood collectors etc.
(vi) The primary sector plays a major role in connecting the other two sectors of the economy-Manufacturing and the tertiary sectors.
(vii)
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