Agro-ecotourism

• According to Cavaliere (2006), agro-ecotourism is “a market-linked method of increasing and Cavaliere conceptualizes agro-tourism as characterized by conventional agriculture, rural tourism, and individual landholders, while agro-ecotourism as characterized by eco-agriculture, ecotourism, and community-based initiatives.
• Agro-ecotourism, a combination of agro-tourism and ecotourism, plays a critical role in Nepal by using diversified resources, both natural and man-made, landscapes, biodiversity, and cultural heritages.
• Agro-tourism can be used to motivate and encourage farming communities to raise their crops in an eco-friendly manner and to conserve the biodiversity of farms (Dangol and Ranabhat, 2007).
• Agro-tourism allows visitors to come in close contact with the inhabitants of small, rural villages and to be involved in traditional ways of agriculture still existing in this age.
• In agro-tourism, tourists can find the answers to their questions about different indigenous agricultural practices, such as how crops are harvested, graded, and preserved, how vegetables can be grown organically, how freshly picked fruits are converted into delicious marmalades, and so on .protecting biodiversity and sustainable rural community development.”