As the most important economic sector in the economy, the primary sector is critical in contributing to the overall economic growth of a society. In some instances, economies that are more developed can devote more excellent resources to primary production. The following points delineate the importance of the primary sector:
• Primary Sector provides the basic needs of the economy, ie, food and mineral ores. It produces some of the raw materials (like jute, cotton, coal extracted from mines) for the industrial sector.
• The agricultural sector provides food for the entire economy. Besides growing crops, the agricultural sector also includes forestry and fishing which provide food and raw
materials for other industries.
• The mining sector provides mineral resources indispensable for the industrial sector of the economy.
• The agricultural population in the primary sector provides a very large market of consumers for the secondary sector (for buying finished products like clothes, goods of daily need, fertilizers, etc.
