Which of the following is an example of agri-business on industrial scale considered as secondary activity?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Tea plantation and processing
Agri-business is commercial farming on an industrial scale. It is often run by big companies whose main business lies outside agriculture. Its farms are large, mechanised and work like ‘agro-factories’.
Option (1) Rice cropping — Incorrect. Growing rice is farming, a primary activity.
Option (2) Wheat cultivation — Incorrect. Growing wheat is also farming, a primary activity.
Option (3) Tea plantation and processing — Correct. Large corporations run tea plantations as agri-business, and turning the leaves into tea is processing, a secondary activity.
Option (4) Cultivation of pulses — Incorrect. Growing pulses is farming, a primary activity.
NCERT (2026-27): “Agri-business is commercial farming on an industrial scale often financed by business whose main interests lie outside agriculture, for example, large corporations in tea plantation business. Agri-business farms are mechanised, large in size, highly structured, reliant on chemicals, and may be described as ‘agro-factories’.” |