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Manufacturing Industries
Social Science · CBSE Class 10 · English Medium · 20 questions and answers
Sample questions
- Q: What is manufacturing?
- A: Manufacturing is the production of goods in large quantities after processing raw materials into more valuable products; for example, converting iron ore into steel.
- Q: Why is the manufacturing sector considered the backbone of development?
- A: Manufacturing is the backbone of economic development because it helps in modernising agriculture, reduces dependence on agriculture, provides jobs, eradicates unemployment and poverty, and brings in foreign exchange through exports.
- Q: What is agro-based industry? Give examples.
- A: Industries that use agricultural products as raw materials, such as cotton textiles, woollen textiles, sugar, jute, edible oil and other food processing industries.
- Q: What is a mineral-based industry? Give examples.
- A: Industries that use minerals as raw materials, such as iron and steel, cement, aluminium smelting, machine tools and petrochemical industries.
- Q: Why is the cotton textile industry important for India?
- A: It is the largest industry in the organised sector, contributing significantly to industrial production, employment and foreign exchange; it has close links with agriculture and provides a living to farmers, cotton pickers and workers.
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