The primary occupations are agriculture, dairying, animal husbandry and poultry farming. These essential activities are not possible without land. Manufacturing industries depend totally on land for raw materials. Land provides minerals, metals and many raw materials like cotton, jute and sugarcane which are used to create other essential products.

1. Primary Occupation:

All primary occupations like agriculture, animal husbandry, poultry farming, fisheries, dairying, forestry, etc. are land oriented and are also known as primary activities.

2. Basis of Industries:

Manufacturing industries get diverse type of raw materials from land, namely, raw cotton, sugarcane, raw jute, coal, minerals and metals, etc.

3. Basis of Power:

All sources of power, i.e. hydro-electricity, thermal power, diesel, coal, oil, etc., emanate from land.

4. Basis of Employment:

In underdeveloped countries nearly two-third of population is engaged in agriculture and other primary activities. Agriculture, forests, mines, etc., provide lot of employment opportunities to rising population.

5. Basis of Transport:

All the important modes of transport, i.e., road, railways, waterways and air-ways are mainly based on surface of the land, rivers, oceans and air, which are all constituents of land.

6. Basis of Trade:

Products of land are traded within the country and also form part of foreign trade. Products like food grains, minerals, metals, timber, leather, hides and skins, wool, tea, jute, petroleum, milk, butter, etc., are tradable products of land.

7. Basis of Economic Growth:

A natural resource, that is land, play an important role in the economic development of a country. Prosperity of gulf countries lies in the oil-wells found there. Economic development of South Africa is mainly due to its fertile land, irrigation and power facilities. All these are different facets of land.

8. Basis of Life:

We depend on land for our subsistence, residence and other necessities of life. Land provides food, raw materials and shelter.