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 earths 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 project

Pavan English medium high school dharwad

Submitted by: Radhika.k.bajaj

Kirthi bendigiri Farheen darur and Anjali .c.navalgatti