Authors : S. B. Gaikwad, Gaikwad N.S., Pujari A. A., Koli V. P.
Page Nos : 83-85
Description :
Agricultural geography is the main branch of economic geography. Now-a-days an innovative practice is receiving higher profit in agricultural activity. An agrotourism is advance source of income in this activity. The term agrotourism describes any type of activity based on the relation between agriculture and tourism and designates a concept over 100 years old, when city-dwellers visited their relatives or friends in the countryside in search of a more pleasant air and of quiet. This practice has become even more popular because of the following: when automobiles appeared and developed; when people were under the pressure of economic crises; when city-dwellers tried to escape war-developed stress; because of countryside nostalgic ones; due to the popularization of agrotourism activities. In the few decades since it has been practiced, agrotourism – still in search of one’s own identity has known several names (agrarian tourism, agricultural tourism, farm tourism, countryside tourism, and rural tourism) and definitions whose common element is the rural and that all tend to focus on those types of activities visitors practice in the rural area. Taken into consideration we have studied the agrotourism is an ideal resource for sustainable development. The paper is based on field survey and secondary sources. Due to population growth the land holding capacity is reduced therefore the necessity of maximum profit should obtained from minimum land. Agrotourism is proper solution for getting maximum profit for the same problem.
Keywords: Agricultural, economic, geography, tourism, resources
