Summary

Goals

  • Being able to describe what the primary sector, the industrial sector and the service sector are.
  • Being able to give examples of jobs from each economic sector.
  • Being able to describe Finnish agriculture, industry and services.
  • Being able to think about what kind of a job you want to focus on in the future.

Summary

  • The primary sector focuses on producing primary goods. It includes agriculture, forestry, fishing and mining.
  • Agriculture forms the basis of Finnish food production.
  • The most important Finnish industries include the forest industry, the machine and metal industry, the chemical industry and the food industry.
  • Biotechnology is a growing field of the chemical industry.
  • The service sector is the fastest-growing and most profitable economical sector. 
  • Key words: industry, the primary sector, agriculture, industry, degree of processing, public services, private services.