When food in supermarkets passes its sell-by date, though, it gets swept off the shelves. Often, it's donated to food banks. Sometimes it's auctioned off. But if you discover such food in your pantry at home, there's really no reason to throw it out.
Production lifecycle. The primary sector of the economy is the sector of an economy making direct use of natural resources. This includes agriculture, forestry, fishing and mining. In contrast, the secondary sector produces manufactured goods, and the tertiary sector produces services. The primary sector is usually most important in less-developed countries, and typically less important in industrial countries.
The part of the economy concerned with the manufacture of goods. Secondary sector entities take the harvested products from the earth and manufacture finished products from these raw materials.