Outline of production

Updated on Dec 25, 2024

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to production:

Production – act of creating 'use' value or 'utility' that can satisfy a want or need. The act may or may not include factors of production other than labor. Any effort directed toward the realization of a desired product or service is a "productive" effort and the performance of such act is production.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to production:

Types

Industry – production of an economic good or service within an economy. Industry is divided into four sectors, or types of production; they are:

Primary sector

Primary sector – this involves the extraction of resources directly from the Earth, this includes agricultural and resource extraction industries. In these industries, the product (that is, the focus of production) is a natural resource.

Agriculture (outline) – cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life.

Animal husbandry – agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.

Farming – cultivating land for the purpose of agricultural production.

Fishing – activity of catching or harvesting fish and other aquatic animals such as molluscs, cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

Forestry (outline) – creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit.

Resource extraction –

Fishing – activity of catching or harvesting fish and other aquatic animals such as molluscs, cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

Logging – harvesting timber, including cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.

Mining (outline) – extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam.

Extraction of petroleum – process by which usable petroleum (oil) is extracted and removed from the earth.

Extraction of natural gas – Natural gas is commercially extracted from oil fields and natural gas fields.

Water industry – provides drinking water to residential, commercial, and industrial sectors of the economy.

Secondary sector

Secondary sector – involves the processing of raw materials from primary industries, and includes the industries that produce a finished, tangible product.

Construction – process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure, including buildings, roads, dams, etc.

Manufacturing – process which involves tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. Ranges from handicraft to high tech industrial production.