Light industry and the food industry
To live, people need many things — food, clothes, a home, knowledge, medical care — and these are their needs; production is the process of creating the goods that meet these needs. If the result is an object you can see and touch (a machine, a building, cotton, bread), it is material production; if the result is a service, knowledge or a work of art (a lesson, a concert, a scientific discovery), it is non-material production. Light industry makes goods people use every day — fabric, clothing, knitwear, footwear and fur items; its raw materials are natural and man-made fibres such as cotton, silk, wool, leather, flax and hemp. The food industry processes farm products into flour, bread, pasta, meat and dairy products, vegetable oil, preserves and confectionery; in Uzbekistan these enterprises rely mainly on local raw materials. The two spheres are linked: the more efficient material production is, the more people and money can go to education, health care and culture.
“Product chain” game: arrange chains such as cotton → yarn → fabric → shirt → shop and wheat → flour → bread, and write which branch does each step. Invent a few more chains (leather → shoes, milk → yoghurt).