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The secondary sector of the economy includes those economic sectors that create a finished usable product and hence depend on primary sector industries for the raw materials. This sector includes mining, manufacturing and construction. The secondary sector contributes 24% of the share in Indian economy. Secondary sector involves the industrial production. Industrial

activities use up the materials produced in the Primary sector and produce final products for consumption.
In the process, it creates massive employment of various scales. It also induces service sector like transport, market etc to flourish.As all the sectors of the economy are interdependent, the Secondary sector has a great contribution to the sustenance and growth of other sectors. Secondary sector induces growth and productivity in the Primary sector and helps in the nourishment of Tertiary sector. It produces instruments and appliances that directly help Primary sector for better production.
It assimilates disguised unemployment and the workers of the Primary sector in their leisure period and could not let them escape from their activities. It also contributes significantly to the GDP of India and employment basket.

The main motive of the French was to exploit the natural resources and other essential goods from Vietnam.
The following points state that, the French succeeded in their mission
(i) For development of their own business profit, the French began to develop the infrastructural projects in Vietnam.
(ii) The French began by building canals and
draining lands in the Mekong delta of Vietnam to increase cultivation.
(iii) The vast system of irrigation works canals and earthworks built mainly with forced labour of the natives, increased rice production.
(iv) The area under rice cultivation went up from 2,74,000 hectares in 1873 to 1.1 million hectares in 1900 and 2.2 million in 1930.
(v) It exported two-third of its rice production and by 1931, Vietnam became the third largest exporter of rice in the world.

The balance of trade compares the value of a country's exports of goods and services against its imports. When exports are greater than imports, that's a trade surplus. Most nations view that as a favorable trade balance. The opposite, when the value of imports outweighs the value of exports, is a trade deficit. Countries usually regard that as an unfavorable trade balance.