What is the primary sector and the secondary sector?

Answer 1

Primary Sector is the Agricultural sector which provides food and other subsistence for the people and raw materials for the industry.

Secondary sector consists of industries of the economy.

Answer 2

The primary sector of the economy extracts or harvests products from the earth. The primary sector includes the production of raw material and basic foods. Activities associated with the primary sector include agriculture (both subsistence and commercial), mining, forestry, farming, grazing, hunting and gathering, fishing, and quarrying. The packaging and processing of the raw material associated with this sector is also considered to be part of this sector.

In developed and developing countries, a decreasing proportion of workers are involved in the primary sector. About 3% of the U.S. labor force is engaged in primary sector activity today, while more than two-thirds of the labor force were primary sector workers in the mid-nineteenth century.

The secondary sector of the economy manufactures finished goods. All of manufacturing, processing, and construction lies within the secondary sector. Activities associated with the secondary sector include metal working and smelting, automobile production, textile production, chemical and engineering industries, aerospace manufacturing, energy utilities, engineering, breweries and bottlers, construction, and shipbuilding.

Answer 3

the extracting of raw materials from the earth.

Answer 4

an industry, as agriculture, forestry, or fishing, that deals in obtaining natural materials.

Answer 5

Is where you change Natural Resources into primary products. Primary products are considered raw materials for other industries.

Answer 6

Consumer spending.

Answer 7

agriculture and related sector