What are secondary activities? Explain with examples. - Vidyadip

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What are secondary activities? Explain with examples.

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Secondary sector:

It covers activities in which natural prod ucts are changed into other forms through ways of manufacturing that we associate with industrial activities.
It uses man-made products.
Since this sector gradually became asso- ciated with different kinds of industries that came up, it is also called as industrial sector.

Example: Sugar or gur is manufactured from sugarcane, and bread from wheat.

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