Question
What are secondary activities and why are they called secondary? Describe with examples.
Solution
Industries which are involved in making more valuable and useful goods from the products of primary activites such as agriculture, forestry, fishing and mining are called secondary activities. Manufacturing of cloth from cotton; sugar from sugarcane etc. are the examples of secondary activities.
They are called secondary activities because they process and manufacture the primary products into secondary products, thus they represents the secondary stage of activities.
