Short answer. No. The definition of agriculture covers farming, cultivation, and harvesting, but it expressly does not include the manufacturing or processing of sugar, coconuts, abaca, tobacco, pineapples or other farm products — a sugar mill or pineapple cannery falls on the processing side, outside the definition.
What the law says
but does not include the manufacturing or processing of sugar, coconuts, abaca, tobacco, pineapples or other farm products
Labor Code, Article 97 — Definitions Of Wage Terms. Read the full provision →
What 'agriculture' actually covers
The definition is built around growing and raising things: it includes farming in all its branches — cultivation and tillage of soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing and harvesting of agricultural and horticultural commodities, and raising livestock or poultry. It also reaches practices a farmer personally performs on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with that same farming, binding the definition to the person actually doing the growing. The common thread running through all of it is activity tied to actually producing the raw crop or livestock itself, out in the field or on the farm.
Processing and manufacturing are explicitly carved out
The definition then draws a clear line: it does not include the manufacturing or processing of sugar, coconuts, abaca, tobacco, pineapples or other farm products. A sugar mill turns harvested cane into refined sugar, and a pineapple cannery processes harvested fruit into canned product — both are named or clearly covered by this exclusion, placing them outside 'agriculture' as this provision defines it.
Why the line is drawn where it is
The distinction separates growing the crop from turning it into a finished or processed product. Farming activities on the field or farm — planting, cultivating, harvesting — fall within the definition, while the industrial work of milling, canning, or otherwise manufacturing what was harvested is treated as a different kind of operation, not agriculture, for purposes of how this particular definitions article applies to a given workplace.
Why this classification matters
This definition sits in the article that defines wage-related terms for the Title covering wages, so whether an operation counts as agriculture or not can affect how wage rules under that Title apply to it. A sugar mill or pineapple cannery operating on the processing side of the business is not treated as an agricultural operation under this particular definition, whatever farming may have supplied the raw material it actually processes into a finished good. Workers employed at the mill or cannery itself are not automatically covered by whatever specific rules the Labor Code reserves for agricultural workers, since their employer's operation sits on the manufacturing side of the line this article draws.