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Primary Activities

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 12 · Geography

Quick revision notes for Primary Activities — Madhya Pradesh Board Class 12 Geography. Key concepts, formulas, and definitions for last-minute revision.

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Introduction to Primary Activities

  • Primary activities are directly dependent on the environment and natural resources
  • They involve utilization of Earth's resources: land, water, vegetation, building materials, minerals
  • Main types: hunting and gathering, pastoral activities, fishing, forestry, agriculture, mining and quarrying
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Hunting and Gathering

  • Earliest economic activity known to humans
  • Early humans depended on hunting animals and gathering edible plants
  • Primitive societies in very cold and extremely hot climates survived on hunting
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Pastoral Activities

  • Nomadic herding is primitive subsistence activity
  • Herders rely on animals for food, clothing, shelter, tools, and transport
  • Movement depends on amount and quality of pastures and water
4

Agricultural Systems

  • Agriculture practiced under multiple physical and socio-economic conditions
  • Two main categories: Subsistence and Commercial agriculture
  • Subsistence agriculture: farming areas consume all products locally

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Human activities that generate incomeThe oldest economic activity where peopleA primitive subsistence activity where herdersOrganizedFarming where products are consumed locally

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