Cambridge O Level Business Studies · Syllabus 7115 · Understanding Business Activity
Primary Sector
What is Primary Sector?
The sector of economic activity that extracts or harvests natural resources directly from the earth, sea or air, such as farming, fishing, forestry, mining, quarrying and oil extraction. Its output normally becomes the raw material used by the secondary sector.
This definition is part of the Understanding Business Activity chapter in Cambridge O Level Business Studies.
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