Primary Sector Current Affairs, GK & News
NSO First revised FY21 GDP estimates
The National Statistical Office recently released the first revised GDP estimates for the fiscal year 2021. According to the estimates, the GDP contracted by 6.6%. Earlier, the GDP had contracted by 7.3%. The contraction is mainly due to COVID pandemic and the lockdown imposed. What do the estimates say? The real GDP for 2020-21 is ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2022
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Advanced estimates • Agriculture • Economic growth • Fiscal Year • Fishing • Forestry • GDP • gross asset value (GVA) • GVA • manufacturing sector • Mining • mining and quarrying sector • National Statistical Office (NSO) • Nominal GDP • NSO • oil and natural gas • Primary Sector • Real GDP • Secondary Sector • Water supply
Four Types of Economic Activities
Economic geography deals with the spatial variations on the surface of the earth of activities related to production, exchange and consumption of goods and services. All the economic activities can be divided into four categories as follows: Primary activities Primary activities pertain to obtaining of natural resources from nature directly. Hunting, gathering, farming, animal husbandry, ..
Topics: Economic Activities • Economy • Primary Sector • Secondary Sector
Andhra Pradesh government to form Krishi Cabinet
Andhra Pradesh government has decided to form a Cabinet sub-committee named as Krishi Cabinet. This sub-committee will focus on the challenges of the Primary Sector Mission of state government undertaken to make agriculture and its allied activities profitable and sustainable for all-round improvement of the rural economy. Decision in this regard was taken by state ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2015
Topics: Agriculture • Andhra Pradesh • Current Affairs - 2017 • Current Affairs 2016 • Primary Sector