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# Agricultural Cultivation

## Definition

The practice of preparing and using land for growing crops and raising livestock. Cultivation includes all activities from soil preparation to harvest and requires significant labor and capital investment.

## Source Chapter

Book I, Chapter 11

## Context

Smith examines how different levels of cultivation affect land productivity and rents, and how the extension of cultivation influences agricultural prices and the distribution of economic returns.

## Economic Domain

Production

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