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Mining is the extraction of minerals or other geological materials from the earth. Mining is required to obtain any material that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or created artificially in a laboratory or factory.

This is a mine .There are two types of mines underground mines and open cast and quarries.

This are miners working .Miners work is very hard

Gonzalo Prieto Zalama 5º C

PRIMARY SECTOR IN CASTILLA Y LEON

ARABLE FARMINGCastile and León has roughly 5,783,831 hectares (14,292,160 acres) of arable land, more than half of the region's area. The land is generally dry, but fertile dryland farming, predominates. Nonetheless, there is increasing irrigation in the basins of the Douro, Pisuerga, and Tormes. About 10 percent of the region's farmland is irrigated, allowing intensive farming in those regions. Flat topography and improved communications have facilitated the entry of technical innovations throughout the agricultural production process, above all in areas such as the provinces of Valladolid and Burgos where production per hectare is among Spain's highest. Castile and León's most fertile lands are in the Esla valley of León, in the countryside of Valladolid and in the Tierra de campos, which intersects the provinces of Zamora, Valladolid, Palencia, and León.

Despite the declining rural population, and despite lower-than-average rural population density today, Castilian-Leonese agricultural production represents some 15 percent of Spain's primary sector.Castile and León is known as "the granary of Spain" and is among Spain's leaders in production of cereals. Wheat is the most traditional crop, with the importance of barley increasing since the 1960s. The next most important cereals after these two, in terms of acreage devoted to their production are rye and oats. In addition to such legumes as locust beans and chickpeas, sunflower cultivation has spread in the southern plains.The land devoted to vineyards decreased greatly in the last three decades of the 20th century. Thanks to adoption of more modern techniques, the 56,337 hectares (139,210 acres) currently devoted to vineyards are turning out vastly better wines than those the region traditionally produced. The region's principal zones of viticulture—each with a mandated Designation of Origin (Denominación de Origen)—are D.O. Ribera del Duero, D.O. Rueda, D.O. Toro, D.O. Bierzo, D.O. Arribes, and D.O. Tierra de León.In the irrigated zones, Castile and León grows sugar beets—a product subsidized by the authorities of the autonomic region—potatoes, alfalfa, and vegetables. The province of León also grows maize, hops, and legumes.

Pablo Gallego 5º B

PRIMARY SECTOR

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Type of activity: Livestock FarmingPeople who do the work: FarmersThis activity gives us raw materials such as: (Food products) Meat, milk, eggs and (non-food products) Wool and leather. Usually these products are intermediate goodsThese activity require a lot of energy and waterThere are two types of livestock farming: Extensive and Intensive.

EXTENSIVE: Farmers raise their livestock in open pastures, they eat natural foods.

INTENSIVE: Farmers raise their livestock in stables and barns, they eat factory foods.Farmers raise different types of livestock:Bovine: cows, bulls and oxen.Porcine: pigs.Ovine: sheeps.Caprine: goats.Avian: birds.

Penélope Fernández 5º B

FishingFishing is the catching of fish and other aquatic animals for food. People who work in this activity are called FISHERMEN. The products this activity produces for us is Fish and other aquatic animals. They are food for us. Fish is a consumer good. There are two type of marine fishing:COSTAL FISHING: near the coastDEEP-SEA FISHING: far from the coast This activity require a lot of work from fishermen. Claudia Fdez. De Castro 5º A

Ofelia Rey 5º C

THE LIVESTOCK AND AGRICULTURE

The first cultivated plants were: wheat and barley. People leave the hunting and fishing by the livestock and agriculture.Egipt agricultureThe first persons that cultivate and raise animals were the Egyptians

Roman agricultureWhat was grown in Rome were cereals, legumes, vegetables and wheat

In actuality:Now used tractors and other modern machines. Of the animals takes leather, skins etc.There are two types of agriculture dryland agriculture and irrigated agriculture.

Dryland agriculture:There are the: wheat,grapes and olives.

Irrigated agriculture:There are the: tomatoes, beans and melons.

Beatriz del Olmo González 5º C