Chapter 14: Economic Activities Around Us — Class 6 Social Science
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Chapter 14: Economic Activities Around Us
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Summary
Economic activities are those that create monetary value, and over the decades their number has grown enormously, from farming and pottery to manufacturing drones and creating software. Classifying these activities helps us understand how they work and connect. Economic activities are grouped into three economic sectors. The primary sector involves activities directly dependent on nature to produce goods — agriculture, mining, fishing, raising livestock and forestry. The secondary sector transforms the outputs of the primary sector into new goods — manufacturing in factories, construction, and providing utilities like water and electricity; for example, turning grain into flour, cotton into cloth, or iron ore into steel and cars. The tertiary sector, or service sector, supports the other two by providing services — transport, banking, trade, communication, healthcare, education and more. The three sectors are interconnected and depend on each other. The story of the AMUL milk cooperative in Anand, Gujarat, shows this clearly: farmers milking cows (primary), processing milk into butter and powder in factories (secondary), and transporting and selling the products (tertiary). The making of school textbooks from tree pulp to printed books is another example where all three sectors work together.
Classifying economic activitiesThe primary sectorThe secondary sectorThe tertiary (service) sectorInterdependence of the three sectors (AMUL story)
Key terms
Economic sector
A broad group of economic activities that share similar characteristics; there are three main sectors.
Primary sector
Activities that extract goods directly from nature, such as farming, fishing, mining and forestry.
Secondary sector
Activities that process raw materials from the primary sector into new products, such as manufacturing.
Tertiary sector
The service sector, which provides support like transport, banking, trade and communication.
Cooperative
A group of people who voluntarily come together to meet their economic and social needs and make decisions collectively.
Export
Goods and services produced in one country and sold to buyers in another country.
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