Wednesday, April 6, 2011

secondary industry

Secondary industry is the industry which is concerned with the conversion of raw materials into finished product that can be either consumed for satisfying the human needs or can be used for the further production. Secondary industry gets its raw materials generally from the primary industry such as extractive industry, genetic industry etc. Secondary industry can be classified into manufacturing industry and constructive industry. Manufacturing industry involves in the production of consumable goods through the process of conversion, processing etc. Sugar industry, for instance, converts sugarcane, the output of agriculture into sugar.Here, sugar is the output of farming, a primary industry. Therefore, sugar industry is the example of secondary industry. It also involves in different steps of processing crude raw materials into finished product. Crude oil extracted is processed into different steps in order to make petrol, diesel, kerosene etc. Constructive industry on the other hand involves in the construction of roads, buildings, dams, bridges etc. These products are not meant for selling in the market rather they are sold wherever they are constructed.

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