HUMAN OCCUPATIONS

Human occupation:

Introduction:

What is human occupation?

Human occupation is nothing but the work performed by human

beings for their survival and to provide themselves the basic needs
such as food, shelter and clothing.

Or in other words

It is the economic activities which human perform to meet their

various requirements.

The choice of occupation depends upon the environment. Which

differs from regions to regions and place to place so the human
occupations differ place to place

There are 3 types of occupation:

1)primary occupation

2)secondary occupation and

3)tertiary occupations
People engaged in various occupations are dependent on each other
people engaged in primary occupations supply food and raw materials
to those who are engaged in secondary occupation. The people from
secondary occupation use those materials and provide finished
product to the tertiary occupation.

And the people from tertiary supply those materials to us.

Primary occupation

Primary occupations is an occupation in which people are directly

dependent on the natural environment for their living

The example for this occupation are:

 Agriculture
 Fishing
 Mining
 Animal rearing and
 lumbering

Agriculture

Agriculture is the most widely practiced primary occupation.

Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating the soil for the purpose
of cultivating crops.

It is also known as farming, agriculture provides food, raw materials,

fruits, vegetables and dairy products.
2) Fishing

Fishing is one of the old occupation of human beings. Even today it is

very important occupations of human beings. It can be carried on in
the traditional way on small scale or in the modern way on a large
scale. There are 3 types of fishings

1)fresh water fishing

2)coastal fishing and

3)Deep sea fishing/open sea fishing

3)Mining

Mining is the process of extracting useful minerals from the earth’s

surface or belove it. Mining has been carried on from very ancient
times the important minerals that are mined are mineral ores, fossil
fuels, precious stones etc minerals are not equally distributed all over
the world. They are found only in some places

Eg: for the mines are KGF kolar gold fields.

4) Animal rearing:

Domestication of animals was one of the first steps in the growth of

civilization. people living in different parts of the world domesticated
and reared different animals. The domestication and rearing of
animals is known as animal husbandry.
Various animals reared for various and different purposes eg cow for
its meat and milk, dog for its protection.

5) Lumbering

Lumbering involves the cutting down of trees for the purpose of

timber. Human beings have been cutting down trees in the forests for
the purpose of timber. Lumbering is divided into two types, namely
lumbering in the temperate forests and lumbering in the tropical
forests. Sweden, finland, Russia, Norway, Canada and the USA. These
countries have rich-soft wood forests and lumbering is developed on
commercial scale.

Lumbering has not been well developed in the tropical forests. The
tropical forests have hard wood. These forests have many varieties

Of trees and dense undergrowth. Hence it is very difficult to enter

these forests.
Social science seminar
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Submitted by:
Radhika.k.bajaj
Kirthi bendigiri
Farheen darur and
Anjali .c.navalgatti