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Question

A labour intensive industry is one that

  1. Requires hard manual labour
  2. Pays adequate wages to the labour
  3. Employs more hands
  4. Provides facilities to labour

Answer:

Option C: Employs more hands

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Employs more hands”.

A labour-intensive industry is one that: (3) Employs more hands. This means that the industry relies heavily on human labor rather than machinery and automation for its production processes.