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Lesson Interrelationship between
7.3

Agriculture and Industry

Industry is the largest source of employment. The
FACTS industrial revolution was another of those extraordinary
to Understand jumps forward in the story of civilization.

industry
Nepal is an agricultural country. The dependency on agriculture is still 67%
in Nepal. According to the Economic Survey Report 2017, agriculture has
contributed about 28.9% to the nation's economy. Mostly agro based industries are
established in Nepal. Agriculture is the major source of raw materials supplied
to the industries. Therefore, there is close relationship maintained between
agriculture and industries. The agricultural production is the primary source of
industrial goods. They are transformed into the secondary and tertiary sources.
Such as sugar is produced from sugarcane and sweets are produced from sugar.
Here sugarcane is primary production, sugar is secondary and sweets are tertiary
production. In this way, the industries in Nepal are mostly depend on agriculture

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