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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brie f passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the alternatives.

Passage - I

To analyze industrial opportunities developing countries should regard industry as based either on natural raw materials or on partly fully finished materials. Most of the industries based on raw materials could be classified as heavy industries. Most of the industries that use materials that are processed to various degrees could be classified as light industries. But another name, basic industries more accurately describes the operations that depend on raw natural resources; they are basic in the sense that they are the starting point in the process; they convert natural resources into materials used for making mother product. Manufacturing must start with raw materials. Deriving from animal vegetable or mineral origin. Without manufacturing the uses of the natural raw materials in their original form are few. Industrial products can be divided according to the three stages of manufacturing: basic, intermediate and final. In some cases these stages occur in different factories at separate locations. The samples industries combine two or even all phases in one factory, process. For example, the sugar industry often starts by crushing the sugarcane and ends with processed sugar packaged for the individual customer. Most industries produce a partially finished, or intermediate product that goes to other factories to be made into final products. A basic metal factory, for instance, will make steel from iron ore, the steel will then be sent to a metal assembling factory, which may take either a final product or parts for an assembly industry.

Raw material industries, unlike industries in the advanced phase of manufacturing, usually require large operation to reduce product costs per unit, called 'economics of scale'. Steel factories, cement operations, pulp paper mills and oil processing factories are examples of such raw material industries. However, some raw material industries such as those involved in food processing, do not have great economics of scale. The large heavy industries usually require extensive capital investment, but create relativity little employment. In heavy industries, the trend is clearly toward more automatic machine process that steadily reduce employment opportunities. These industries produce more than can be absorbed by the markets that exist in many developing countries consequently, they often manufacture their products for the international export market.

Why is the processing of raw materials required'?

A) To convert it into usable form  

B) To achieve industrial growth

C) To meet the needs of industries  

D) To generate employment