Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
THE PRIMARY SECTOR, image, image, image, image, image, image - Coggle…
THE PRIMARY SECTOR
3.1 THE PRIMARY SECTOR ACROSS THE WORLD
increase in the world population
has led to
greater need for food
more land for crops
at the expense of destroying forests
Improvements in production systems
have allowed us to produce more food
fertilisers
seed selection
mechanisation
Large agricultural areas
relatively few people working in the agricultural sector
less than 5%
these countries are large-scale producers
fruits and tubers
livestock and fish
cereals
mining industry has become
more highly mechanised
needs fewer mine workers
these developed economies
carry out agricultural and livestock
for the purposes of trade
other countries
carry out agricultural and livestock
for self-consumption
a large number of workers but low efficiency
Asia
America
Africa
contributes very little to the country's
gross domestic product
has gone through big changes over the last years
it is still significant
provides food
raw materials
industry uses and converts into other things
3.2 THE PRIMARY SECTOR IN SPAIN
Agricultural activities
are carried out by fewer and fewer people due to mechanisation.
just over 4%
Agriculture and livestock
provide food and raw materials
to produce other products
Depending on the amount of water
the crops need
irrigated crops
non-irrigated crops
Mining consists of extracting minerals from the Earth's surface
was always a very important activity in Spain
nowadays it contributes very little to gross domestic product
mines
created certain characteristics and cultural traditions
continued long after the mine closed
examples
iron
aluminium
have transformed the landscape
Forest exploitation or forestry
mainly focused on obtaining wood
for construction
for making furniture and paper
Most wood of Spain
comes from Galicia
other important areas
Basque Country
Castilla and Leon
main kinds of wwods
pine
eucalyptus
beech
oak and Holm oak
provides
cork
Fishing
is the catching and removal of fish or other aquatic species from their environment
has suffrered
Spain catches a large amount of fish
production
has also increased
farms
sea farms
fish
The fishing sector is still very substantial
Canary Islands
Western Andalucia
Galicia
