What are various types of industries?

It includes all those activities, which are concerned with the extraction/ production from natural resources and reproduction and development of living organisms, plants etc. These industries may be further sub-divided as follow :

    (i) Extractive industries.

    (ii) Genetic industries.

Secondary industries

    (i) They are concerned with using the materials which have already been extracted at the primary stage e.g., the mining of iron ore is primary industry but manufacture of steel is secondary industry.

    (ii) Secondary industries may be further divided as follows :

   (a) Manufacturing industries : Which may even further divided into:

              1. Analytical industry, which analyses and separates different materials from the same material, like oil refineries.

              2. Synthetical industry, which combine different elements to form a product, like Cement indsutry

              3. Processing industry, which involves successive stages for manufacturing finished products, as in the case of sugar and paper.

              4. Assembling industry, which assembles different component parts to make a new product, as in the case of television, car, computer, etc.

 (b) Construction industries.

Tertiary industries

    (i) They are concerned with providing support services to primary and secondary industries as well as activities relating to trade.

    (ii) These industries provide Service Facilities

    (iii) Examples include transport, banking, insurance, warehousing, communication, packaging and advertising.