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Write in detail about the characteristics of primary economic activities.

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  • Hunting, gathering, fishing, rearing animals, mining and agriculture, etc., are the important primary economic activities of man.
  • These activities are solely dependent on nature.
  • Primary activities mean extraction of natural resources.
  • These activities mainly produce raw materials required in different types of industries.
  • Natural calamities affect most of the primary activities.
  • In developing countries very large proportion of working population is engaged in primary activities, since there is less use of machinery.
  • In developed countries there is less proportion of working population engaged in primary activities, since there is more use of machinery.


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