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Totonicapan in GuatemalaEx: wheat. Food produced by a family for its own needs. Anything extra, usually very little, may be sold for important supplies.

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1 Totonicapan in GuatemalaEx: wheat

2 Food produced by a family for its own needs. Anything extra, usually very little, may be sold for important supplies like cooking oil, or clothes. This kind of agriculture uses little, if any, machinery.

3 Crops grown to be sold coffee, tea, rubber, cocoa, etc. Rubber Tree Cocoa pods on cacoa tree Ex: Sugar Cane

4 Market-Oriented Agriculture Farmers specialize in growing crops that other people want to buy = sell for profit Advanced commercial farming= Agribusiness Agribusiness = the operation of specialized commercial farms that are highly mechanized and occupy large tracts of land

5 Primary Secondary Tertiary Quaternary

6 Follow the life of toothpicks through the four levels of economic development:

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11 Primary Industry Directly uses resources and raw materials Ex: Agriculture, Forestry, Mining Mining for gold in Nicaragua Forestry in Brazil

12 Secondary Industry Takes goods from primary industry and changes the goods into products useful to consumers. Ex: Manufacturing, dairies, bakeries, etc.

13 Tertiary Industries Provides services to primary and secondary industries, to communities, and to individuals Ex: retail stores, restaurants, banks, insurance, public transportation, utilities

14 Quaternary Industries Provides specialized skills and knowledge to tertiary, secondary, and primary industries Ex: Information research, management, administration


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