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THE PRIMARY SECTOR - Coggle Diagram
THE PRIMARY SECTOR
THE PRIMARY SECTOR ACROSS THE WORLD
Increase in the world population
Over 7 billion people
A greater need for food
More land for crops (usually at the expense of destroying forests)
Improvements in production systems
Allowed us to produce more food
(mechanisation, fertilisers, seed selection...)
Large agricultural areas
Have few people working in the agricultural sector (less than 5%)
But countries are large-scale producers of cereals, fruits and tubers (livestock and fish)
Mining industry has become more highly mechanised and needs fewer mine workers
Also mining industry become
Highly mechanised and needs fewer mine workers
Developed economies
Carry out agricultural and livestock activities
For the purposes of trade
In contrast
Other countries do these activities for self-consumption
Large number of workers but low efficiency
Contributes to the country's gross domestic product (value of goods produced in one year)
THE PRIMARY SECTOR IN SPAIN
Agricultural activities
Carried out by fewer people (over 4% of working population)
Due to mechanisation
(farming and livestock, forestry, mining and fishing)
Types
Agriculture and livestock
Provide food and raw materials for other products
Depending on the amount of water the crops need
Non-irrigated crops (do not need watering)
Irrigated crops
Mining consists of extracting minerals from the Earth's surface
Was important activity in Spain, now contributes very little to gross domestic product
Mines transformed landscape and created certain characteristics and cultural traditions
Continued long after the mine closed
(iron, aluminium...)
Forest exploitation or forestry
Obtaining wood for construction or for making furniture and paper
Wood production in Spain comes from Galicia
Other important areas
Basque Country and Castilla y León
Main kinds of woods
Pine, eucalyptus, beech, oak and Holm oak
The corn oak (Extremadura, Huelva and Girona) provides cork
Fishing
Catching and removal of fish(any aquatic species) from their environment
The sector has suffered
Spain catches a large amount of fish
Production increased as a result of river fish farms and sea farms
This sector
Is still very substantial in Galicia, the Canary Islands and Western Andalucía.
Big changes over the last years
(still significant)
It provides food that the industry uses and converts into other things
Example: raw materials
