Components/Products of Agro Tourism
Agro tourism is more over spread on the rural
motivations than just a tourist product .
Agro tourism tourists usually travel with family and originate mostly from
urban or semi-urban areas. They try to understand the activities of village
economy in grass-root level and cultural
amusements and enjoy the rural green
environments which are attractions of agro tourism. Places of agricultural
importance like highest crop yielding farm, fishing activities, plantation, animal
yielding produces, floriculture and many more that bind the tourists in bond of
a love and familiarity. There is a vast area to explore of piggery, goaterry,
bullock cart riding piggery, goaterry, bullock cart riding, camel riding,
boating, agro shopping, biodiversity park, rain-water harvesting and watershed management,
models of soil-water conservation, nursery management, small poultry unit,
pisy-culture, sericulture, herbal park, medical plantation, bio gas utility
models, solar utility products. It also supports and enriches to conserve our
local custom and culture like folklore, kirtan, bhajan night, palagan, jatra,
local whole some and tasty cuisines and heart touching handicrafts. The
potentiality involves in:
i. How to grow various agriculture like cereals, corns,
vegetables, flowers and fruits, medical plants etc, ii. Cultivation of fish and
fishing, iii. Animal rearing, milking of cow, sheep, goats , egg from hen etc
and iv. preparation of cheese, curd, butter etc from.
And the Special
Attractions are in :
i. Bird watching, ii) Picking fruits and vegetables, iii.
Identification and familiarization of some common trees specially among the
students, green hunters. iv. Demonstration of clay – mitti works, v. Extraction
of date juice and preparation of molasses (Gur) there from, vi. Preparation of
pickles, bari (badi) , jam etc., vii. Exhibition of local art and
culture(kirtan, palagan etc.) viii. Arrangement of feasts, ix. Day trips to
local areas, x. Visit to local temple, market etc
Other Potential and attractive Events are :
i. organising Rural games like Kabadi, Kho Kho during rural
festivals like Roja, pongal, onam etc, ii. Bicycle rides, iii. Bullock cart
ride, kite flying festival on Makar Sankranti and many many place to place
variable thousands of heart touching events.