Can you answer why agriculture, hunting, mining, forestry,and fishing are called primary activities?
Primary industry is all about production of unprocessed goods. Processing adds value to unprocessed or primary goods. Low-cost agricultural commodities like fresh tomatoes and grapes are primary goods while their derivatives Tomato Paste and Wine respectively are high value processed goods. The products of hunting are animal corpses or simply raw unprocessed meat. Processing of meat will lead to high value packed meat. The fishing industry gives us low value fresh fish that needs processing to fish fillets e.t.c. Mining of Iron ore and petroleum, for instance, requires another process to refine the ore or petroleum to more useful Steel and petroleum fractions like Diesel, petrol, cooking gas and kerosene. Forestry leads to logs that are not as useful as the paper or high-quality timber we process from these.
