Prabhupada: …their own food, it takes working eight hours for three months. So three months, if they work hard — hard means eight hours, not more than — then the whole year's provision is there.

Siddha-svarupa: Yes. Simply they have to harvest time, maybe two hours a day. Farming or being in the countryside also seems to be… In itself, working in the countryside rather than in a factory seems to be more conducive for thinking, even while they're working.

Prabhupada: No, it is a fact. This factory working is most demonic. It is not required at all. For the interest of a few persons this device has been invented.

(June 18, 1975, Honolulu)