Our farm projects are an extremely important part of our movement. We must become self-sufficient by growing our own grains and producing our own milk, then there will be no question of poverty. So develop these farm communities as far as possible. They should be developed as an ideal society depending on natural products not industry. Therefore let everyone, chant Hare Krsna, eat nicely and keep their bodies fit and healthy. This is ideal lifestyle.

Srila Prabhupada, Letter to Rupanuga, 19 December 1974