Agro -Eco Tourism

INTRODUCTION
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). Nepal has plenty of natural resources, which has
helped to make agro-tourism more popular and fascinating among tourists. 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 (First Environmental Trekking, 2010).