ABSTRACT
In agriculture, certain factors play a crucial role in the enhancement of production. These factors are of two types: natural (ecological), like rainfall pattern and chemical composition of soil; and productive forces, e.g. instruments, irrigation, agricultural practices, and so on. Both these forces are necessary for the labour process. While discussing the labour process, Karl Marx analysed the importance of the natural factors and wrote:
Labour is, in the first place, a process in which both man and Nature participate, and in which man of his own accord starts, regulates, and controls the material re-actions between himself and Nature. He opposes himself to Nature as one of her own forces, setting in motion arms and legs, head and hands, the natural forces of his body, in order to appropriate Nature’s productions in a form adapted to his own wants. By thus acting on the external world and changing it, he at the same time changes his own nature. 1
