AGRITOURISM AND FERMERS DIVERSIFICATION IN SAMARKAND REGION
Maqola haqida umumiy ma'lumotlar
The main purpose of this study is to examine the current situation and identify issues influencing the sustainable development of agritourism in rural areas in Samarkand region of Uzbekistan Increasing the economic potential of the rural areas by introducing innovative activities on Samarkand region‘s fermers and ensuring sustainable development is essential. Samarkand has extremely favorable conditions for many forms of tourism, especially agritourism. Th study conducted with 110 randomly selected fermers in Samarkand. Based on this data collection and analysis using chi-square and t tests, this study found significant socio-economic differences among agritourism and nonagritourism fermers. The results also indicated that agritourism is not popular among fermers in Samarkand. Finally, this paper investigated the general characteristics of fermers in the region, the current state of agritourism, the economic situation of fermers, and challenges in the development of agritourism.
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Togaymurodov , E. . (2022). AGRITOURISM AND FERMERS DIVERSIFICATION IN SAMARKAND REGION. Academic Research in Educational Sciences, 3(1), 28–34. https://doi.org/10.24412/2181-1385-2022-01-28-34
Togaymurodov , Elbek . “AGRITOURISM AND FERMERS DIVERSIFICATION IN SAMARKAND REGION.” Academic Research in Educational Sciences, vol. 1, no. 3, 2022, pp. 28–34, https://doi.org/10.24412/2181-1385-2022-01-28-34.
Togaymurodov , . 2022. AGRITOURISM AND FERMERS DIVERSIFICATION IN SAMARKAND REGION. Academic Research in Educational Sciences. 1(3), pp.28–34.