People as Resource — Social Studies STD 9 — Question

Primary activities are directly dependent on the environment as these refer to the utilization of earth’s resources such as land, water, vegetation, building materials, and minerals. It, thus includes hunting and gathering, pastoral activities, fishing, forestry, agriculture, and mining and quarrying.
These jobs are mainly self-employed, as the workers work upon themselves and are not accountable to anyone or there is none to order them.
The following points may help you:

1. The primary sector or the agricultural sector constitutes the backbone of Indian society.
2. Agriculture constitutes the basic economic activities for our population, around two/thirds of our population is dependent on agriculture for their livelihood.
3. This sector is primarily comprises of self employment where the whole family is generally engaged in the production and cultivation in a field.
4. The produce is then divided among them.
5. Since the entire family is involved in the cultivation, they are in a way all employed.
6. In this way it reduces unemployment in the rural areas, as all the members are involved.
7. But this leads to the problem of disguised unemployment as productivity or output per worker is low, since more people are involved than actually required.