Primary

A nation’s economy can be divided into “Sectors” to define the proportion of a population engaged in different activities. Sector is an area of the economy in which businesses share the same or related business activities, products, or services.

The Primary Sector of Economy is related to Agriculture which deals in extraction, harvesting and production of raw materials and basic foods from the earth. The packaging and processing of raw materials are also considered to be part of this sector. People engaged in this sector are called red-collar worker/jobs. The word Agriculture is derived from a Latin words “Ager/Agri” means “Soil” and “Cultura” means “Cultivation”. Agriculture is well-defined as the art, science, and business of crop cultivation and livestock rearing for economic objectives.

Primary Sector as an Art

This includes knowing how to skillfully perform farm operations, but certainly doesn’t involve knowledge of the operative principles behind the farm management.

Primary Sector as a Science

Making use of available technologies which are specifically developed according to scientific values i.e. plant breeding, production, protection, economic methods, etc to increase the crop yield and farm profits. Techniques e.g., production of new crop varieties by crossbreeding of pest, restricting plant diseases, production of crop hybrids, varieties with high sensitivity to fertilizers, water management, herbicides for weed control, the use of bio-control agents for pest and diseases, etc. are all included in science.

Primary Sector as a Business

Seeking to maximize its bottom line by managing agricultural labor, capital, and water using the information to produce food, fiber, feed, and fuel. Recently, agriculture has transformed into a commercial category to be adapted as a business through modern automation. Agriculture includes several fields like horticulture, seed growing, dairy farming, and animal husbandry, use of land as pastures, grasslands, vegetable gardens, and forest nurseries, and the use of land for forests where they are used for agricultural purposes and use of land for agricultural purposes. ”

Perimeter of Primary Sector

Genetic Industry

Production of Raw Materials that may be increased by Human Intervention in the production process like Agriculture, Forestry, Grazing, Hunting, Fishing, etc. all of which are subject to Scientific and Technological improvement of Renewable Resources

Extractive Industry

Production of Exhaustible Raw Materials that cannot be augmented through cultivation like Mining of Mineral Ores, Quarrying of Stones and Extraction of Mineral Fuels etc