I was successful in adding multiple fields using arcpy as follows:
div_fields = ("divpa_whea" , "divpa_maiz", "divpa_barl", "divpa_sorg", "divpa_sorg", "divpa_grou","divaa_whea", "divaa_maiz", "divaa_barl", "divaa_sorg", "divaa_sorg", "divaa_grou")for i in div_fields...