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the part of the economy concerned with the extraction of raw materials and the provision of agricultural crops and animal produce. The primary sector, together with the INDUSTRIAL SECTOR and the SERVICE SECTOR, form an inter-locking chain of economic activities that constitute a modern economy. See STRUCTURE OF INDUSTRY.
Collins Dictionary of Economics, 4th ed. © C. Pass, B. Lowes, L. Davies 2005
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"Establishing a Primary Sector Centre of Vocational Excellence is another sign of the Coalition Government's commitment to the primary sector and to raising the status of vocational education." Chris Hipkins said.
aACoeThe share of primary sector is estimated at 17.8 per cent in 2018-19.
Similarly in case of Gujarat, the primary sector contributed more than 48 percent to NSDP in 1980-81, followed by the tertiary sector (30.51 percent) and the secondary sector (21.01 percent).
Therefore, primary sector is a central catalyst to growth.
BMI forecasts per capita wages, in local currency terms, to grow by 15.9% in the primary sector in 2017, following a fouryear contraction, while wages in the non-primary sector are forecast a robust growth of 19.4% after four consecutive years of declining growth, over the same period, as per the report.
Although numbers of pupils taught at Welsh-medium schools are projected to rise by 15.2% in Cardiff between 2016-17 and 2021-22 and growth in the Welsh-medium primary sector is forecast, extra places won't be needed until after 2022, the report adds.
Thaver as chairman of the capacity building, working group of the Technical Committee of the National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) which is a shared leadership project of World Bank, Ministry of Finance and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has proposed capacity building of the primary sector from grass roots level.
Pakistan's agricultural sector is one of the primary sector that France is interested in investing in.
The topics to be covered in the 10th Pakistan SME Forum 2016 will include among others, capacity building of the primary sector, cottage industries at grass roots levels, banking, leasing, insurance and logistics facilities and technology advancements.
The food requirement of people working in the primary sector is more than four times that of the people working in tertiary sector.
"We view this transaction as an important milestone in bridging the gap between Lebanon's primary sector and the banking sector.
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