HORTICULTURE

HORTICULTURE SCIENCE

GENERAL AGRICULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Agriculture serves as a source of raw material for ____ industry.
A
Tertiary
B
Quaternary
C
Primary
D
Secondary
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Agriculture provides raw materials for industries such as sugar, jute, cotton textiles and vanaspati. Paper industries require particular grass, bamboo and other plant material. Paper production is impossible without agriculture.

Detailed explanation-2: -Agriculture provides most of the world’s food and fabrics. Cotton, wool, and leather are all agricultural products. Agriculture also provides wood for construction and paper products. These products, as well as the agricultural methods used, may vary from one part of the world to another.

Detailed explanation-3: -The agricultural sector provides raw materials for the industrial sector. Agriculture supplies raw materials for many industries, such as Cotton to textile industries, oilseeds, and coconut for oil extraction, sugarcane for the sugar industry, tea leaves, coffee, etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -Industries based on agricultural raw material are known as agro – based industries such as sugar industries based on sugarcane and cotton textile industry etc. The best known agro industries include cotton industry which manufacture cotton related products like jackets, clothes.

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