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THE PRIMARY SECTOR - Coggle Diagram
THE PRIMARY SECTOR
THE PRIMARY SECTOR
ACROSS THE WORLD
DEVELOPED ECONOMIES
Improvements in
PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
Fertilisers
Seed selection,...
MECHANISATION
Few people working in this sector
(less than 5%)
Large-scale producers
Purposes of TRADE
LESS DEVELOPED
ECONOMIES
Self-consumption
Large number of workers
Low efficiency
Little contribution to gross domestic product
THE PRIMARY SECTOR IN SPAIN
(4% of working population
due to MECHANISATION)
AGRICULTURE
Agricultural PRODUCTION
FRUIT TREES
Orange, tangerine, peach, lemon and apple trees
(Valencia, Murcia, Lleida, Aragón)
Banana tree (Canary Islands)
Tropical fruits (Andalusian Mediterranean coast)
GRAPEVINES and
OLIVE TREES
Andalucia, La Mancha and Extremadura
World's number one producer of wine and olive oil
FRUITS and VEGETABLES
and ANIMAL FEED
Animal feed: alfalfa (Huesca)
Potatoes, tomatoes, melon, lettuce, pepper
and strawberries (Almeria, Alicante and Murcia)
INDUSTRIAL CROPS
Cotton, sunflower, tobacco and sugar beet
CEREALS
Wheat and barley
(Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha and Ebro Valley)
Rice (Tarragona, Valencia and Sevilla)
Corn (Galicia and Aragon)
CROPS
Non-irrigated crops
Irrigated crops
Provides FOOD and RAW MATERIALS
LIVESTOCK
Provides FOOD and RAW MATERIALS
Livestock PRODUCTION
OVINE or sheep
Extremadura, Castilla Leon, Casilla-La Mancha and Aragon
CAPRINE (goats)
Andalucia and Extremadura
PORCINE (pigs)
Cataluña and Aragon (main producers)
Castilla Leon, Andalucia and Extremadura (quite important)
BOVINE or CATTLE
(cows and bulls)
Castilla y Leon, Galicia and Extremadura
MINING
Little contribution to gross domestic product
Coal, iron, aluminium, marble, gypsum or granite
Asturias
FORESTRY
Provides wood
Uses
Furniture
Paper
Construction
Main kinds
Pine, eucalyptus, beech,
oak and Holm oak
Galicia (most wood production)
Pais Vasco and Castilla Leon
FISHING
River and sea fish farms
Galicia, Canary Islands and western Andalucia
It provides
FOOD
RAW MATERIALS