Authors : B.T. Kanse & Tejas Kanse
Page Nos : 96-98
Description :
The urban population having roots in villages always have had the curiosity to learn about sources of food, plants, animals, raw materials like wood, handicrafts, languages, culture, tradition, dresses and rural lifestyle. These changes have generated new ideas as well as approaches to leisure and recreation. These ideas and approaches have paved path towards rural and agro tourism development. Agro tourism is complimentary to traditional agricultural activities. It is an opportunity for farmers to use the available resources in a diversified and innovative way. It creates a win –win situation to farmers as well as tourists. Farmers earn better from innovative use of available resources and the tourist can enjoy village life and nature in an affordable prices. Not only is this, the villages also benefited due to the development of agro tourism. In spite of growing agro tourism, the fact remains that the government support through appropriate and conducive policies for agro tourism development is lacking and government should give priority to agro tourism business in Maharashtra through appropriate policy measures
Key words - Agro tourism, rural life, rural recreation
