Types of Industry

In this article, we will get to know together with the types of industry:

Primary Industry

This industry is considered to be heavily dependent on raw materials, less fish, and agriculture of all kinds, mining, quarries, and minerals. The primary industry is divided into two parts:

  • Genetic industry: which the human elements enter into its production processes such as agriculture, fish, and animal wealth, in addition to the continuous scientific and technological improvement of the existing resources.
  • Recruitment industry: It is the materials through which a lot of things can be made, which is extracting raw materials from their origin, such as mining mineral ores and stones and extracting mineral fuels. This industry is for the poor and underdeveloped countries an important and essential thing for them compared to secondary and developed industries.

Secondary Industry

What is meant by the manufacturing industry is the taking of raw materials by primary industries and processing them in consumer goods and transforms secondary industries into products and commodities. Examples of secondary industries are the hydroelectric and construction industries. Secondary industries are divided into two parts:

Large-scale industry: It is an investment in machinery, equipment, and factories, and requires very large capital and serves large and diversified markets including other manufacturing industries.

This industry is characterized by investing little capital in equipment and factories to produce the industry, which are non-standard products such as handicraft and usually the workforce here is not very skilled as is the case in the textile, clothing, food and plastic industries, while jobs that require miraculous skills in manufacturing such as electronics and computer hardware manufacturing and machinery and gem cutting.

Advanced Industry

What is meant by this industry is the service industry and these industries only provide intangible services and usually do not produce concrete baskets. This industry is characterized by a mix of private and governmental projects, whether banking, financial, insurance, investment, real estate, wholesale or retail trade, resale, transportation, information, and communication services in addition to professional, consulting, legal, and personal services, tourism, hotels, restaurants, entertainment, repair and maintenance services, education, teaching, health, social welfare, administrative services, police, security, and defense.

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