Classify industries on the basis of source of raw material. How are they different from each other?

(i) On the basis of sources of raw material industries are classified as:

(a) Agro Based Industries

(b) Mineral Based Industries.

(ii) These industries are different from each other on following basis:

(a) Agro Based industries:

• Draws their raw materials from agricultural products.
• e.g.: Textiles-Cotton, jute, silk and woollen.  Rubbel sugar; coffee, iea and edible oil etc.

(b) Mineral Based Industries:

• Draws their raw materials from minerals.
• e.g., Iron and steel, cement, machine tools, petro chemicals etc.

On the basis of the sources of raw materials used industries are classified into agrobased industries eg cotton, silk, rubber, tea etc. and mineral based industries, e.g., iron and steel, cement etc. 

They are different from each other in the following ways: 

Agro based industries are based on agricultural raw materials, e.g. cotton, wool, sugarcane etc. Mineral based industries use minerals and metals as raw materials e.g. iron ore, bauxite etc. 

Agro based industries depend on manufacturing industries for machinery, tools and implements. On the other hand, mineral based industries feed manufacturing industries 

Industries on the basis of source of raw materials and their differences are:

(1) Agro based industries: Those industries which draw raw material from agriculture is called agro based industries example: cotton textile, sugar mill.

(2) Mineral based industries: Industries which get raw material from minerals called mineral based industries. example: cement, steel, iron industries

(3) pastoral based industries: These industries depends up on animals for their raw materials. example: shoes, dairy industries.

(4) Forest based industries: paper, wood industries are forest based industries.