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Agriculture

Definition

The sector of production concerned with the cultivation of land and the raising of crops and livestock. Smith argues that agriculture does not admit of as many subdivisions of labour as manufactures, because seasonal rhythms prevent workers from specialising year-round in a single task. As a result, agricultural productivity improves less dramatically with the division of labour than manufacturing productivity.

Source Chapter

Book I, Chapter 1: "Of the Division of Labour"

Context

Agriculture is introduced as a counterpoint to manufactures. Smith notes that the ploughman, harrower, sower, and reaper are often the same person, and that this is why even rich countries do not surpass poor countries in agricultural output as dramatically as in manufacturing output.

Economic Domain

Production

Smith's Original Wording

"The nature of agriculture, indeed, does not admit of so many subdivisions of labour, nor of so complete a separation of one business from another, as manufactures."