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    Agriculture is the foundation of the country and cannot b... — Carmelics
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    Agriculture is the foundation of the country and cannot be neglected.

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    • 1.Knowledge or skill in agriculture greatly increases a country's profit.
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    • 2.Ignorance or lack of skill in agriculture greatly increases a country's losses.
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    • 1.Modern economies derive foundational stability from diversified sectors including manufacturing, services, and information systems, not agriculture alone.
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    • 2.Adam Smith's division of labor analysis demonstrates that commercial exchange networks, not primary production, generate the surplus wealth sustaining complex societies.
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    • 3.Privileging agriculture as foundational commits the genetic fallacy: historical origins of civilization do not determine present structural necessity.
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    • 1.Physiocratic doctrine, which similarly elevated agriculture as the sole source of national wealth, was decisively refuted by classical economists demonstrating value creation across all productive labor.
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    • 2.If foundational status entails policy priority, then technologically advanced food-importing nations like Singapore and Japan refute the inference that agricultural neglect produces national decline.
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    Furthermore, knowledge or ignorance in agriculture, or the skill or lack of skill greatly affects a country’s profit and loss. Therefore, I say, “agriculture is the foundation of the country”, because it is an industry which cannot be neglected. Yet, the general tendency is that there are few skilled agriculturalists and many unskilled farmers. This is precisely because there are no expert agricultural teachers. If those lords (ryōshu) issued orders, and selected agriculturalists knowledgeable a
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