Rural Planning
Mohammad Javad Ahmadian; Elham Karimi
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In addition to the economic value, agricultural farms and their products can play an important role in tourism, especially in rural areas. This study examines the feasibility of agricultural tourism development in Saffron farms of Tiran-va-Karvan rural areas and attempts to identify and describe its ...
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In addition to the economic value, agricultural farms and their products can play an important role in tourism, especially in rural areas. This study examines the feasibility of agricultural tourism development in Saffron farms of Tiran-va-Karvan rural areas and attempts to identify and describe its determinants and barriers. The statistical population was the Saffron farmers of the region. The practically experienced Saffron farms tourism, as the dependent variable, and farmers’ individual characteristics, crop’s economic characteristics, and several structural and organizational factors were independent variables of the study, which have evaluated and analyzed through appropriate processing procedures, following the operationalization and data gathering field operations. Based on the results, the limited practically experienced Saffron farms tourism has been positively influenced by factors such as general tourism infrastructures, advertising, demand from local authorities, economic characteristics of the crop, its cultivation history and the level of education of the farmers. Further analysis showed if the region’s potential of Saffron farms tourism, be accompanied by organizational supports and specialized farm amenities as the most important preconditions for farm tourism, and favorable mentalities of farmers to pursue and realize it, will be able to lead the Saffron cultivation system of the region towards the on-farm non-agricultural entrepreneurial activities, especially the tourism, more commercialized and profitable. That way, due to the harvest and post-harvest characteristics of Saffron, the women and even the non-agricultural occupants of the families can have a significant role in this regard.
All other Geographic fields of studies , Interdisciplinary
Abbas Amini; Tayyebe Zahedei
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Iran''''s rural economy has a decisive role in the whole community for various reasons such as food security and export production supplying, contribution in GDP and value added. As well, it is highly responsible to create the occupation and income opportunities for the rural communities and ...
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Iran''''s rural economy has a decisive role in the whole community for various reasons such as food security and export production supplying, contribution in GDP and value added. As well, it is highly responsible to create the occupation and income opportunities for the rural communities and organize the socio-economic situations in rural areas. This study purposes to assess the floriculture impacts, as a relatively new farming activity in the Lalehzar district rural community of Bardsir township in the Kerman province. Statistical population is rural resident households in four villages of Lalehzar. 250 persons were randomly sampled and interviewed in order to gather the needed primary data. Secondary data required by referring the documentations. The self-organized questionnaire was pretested in order to assess its reliability and realize the main variables variation to estimate the size of the sample. After the statistical description of the sample properties and research variables, further inferential analysis was carried out by employing factor analysis and varimax rotation. Results indicated that the most important impact of the floriculture activity has been shifting the farming systems of the region towards the sustainability which is considered as an environmental impact. Social impacts, mainly in promoting the rural women''''s socio-economic status has been the next major consequence, following the economical impacts such as employment and income earning opportunities provided via lateral activities. Existence of a lot of environmental and peripherals
