__________ is NOT a tertiary activity.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Dairy farming
Tertiary activities provide services, not goods. They include trade, transport, communication and services. Primary activities use the earth’s resources directly, as in farming and animal rearing.
Option (1) Trade activities — A tertiary activity. Trade, the buying and selling of goods, is an exchange service.
Option (2) Services in government offices — A tertiary activity. Governments perform and supervise many services, such as education and customer care.
Option (3) Dairy farming — Not a tertiary activity. Rearing milch animals is a type of agriculture, so it is a primary activity.
Option (4) Transport activities — A tertiary activity. Transport is an exchange service used to overcome distance.
Note: The same question was also asked in CUET (UG) 2022 on 16-07-2022 (Slot 1).
NCERT (2026-27): “Tertiary activities include both production and exchange. The production involves the ‘provision’ of services that are ‘consumed’. The output is indirectly measured in terms of wages and salaries. Exchange, involves trade, transport and communication facilities that are used to overcome distance.” “Many services have now been regulated. Making and maintaining highways and bridges, maintaining fire fighting departments and supplying or supervising education and customer-care are among the important services most often supervised or performed by governments or companies.” “Human activities which generate income are known as economic activities. Economic activities are broadly grouped into primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary activities. Primary activities are directly dependent on environment as these refer to utilisation 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.” |