ABSTRACT
There are also important differences between agriculture and manufacturing, differences that apply to traditional production and which are responsible for dissimilar rates of absorption of the advanced technologies. Manufacturing is dominated by processes, equipment and power contrived by the human participants. All the inputs and the physical principles governing the transformation are manipulable by man. Agriculture, on the other hand, is a co·· operative venture between man and nature. Its sequences are given and production depends upon soil, sunlight and rainfall. Thus the inalterable character of the process of biological growth, however it may be augmented, provides a continuity of farm organization and work patterns between the most primitive and the most advanced farming methods which is absent in manufacturing. The specific difference
between farming and craft production in the traditional economy is that the precise seasonal requirements of agriculture impose a pattern on the timing of work and organic growth provides a rough standardization of product. Neither of these built-in controls is present in primitive manufacture. In producing the pot, the hoe and the sandal, raw material inputs, product specification and product quality are variable.
