Types of industry: Primary Industry

Farming is a primary Industry.

• These produce or extract raw materials from nature to be used by other economic sectors.
• Examples include fishing, farming, forestry and mining.
• Developing countries have traditionally been suppliers of raw materials to advanced countries.
• This is one of the reasons that they were colonized.
• As a result, they have many well-established extractive industries.
• There are also other reasons why extractive industries have grown in these developing countries such as Zimbabwe.
• Among them is the availability of the raw materials,
• the cheapness of extraction,
• the availability of the technology required as well as the need to create employment for the rapidly expanding population.

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