A small farm in the village can make good money not only on its own products. The activities of home agriculture and farming can become part of the tourism business.
Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – March 25, 2021 – Agriculture
What seems commonplace to farmers and villagers turns into a fascinating activity for tourist guests. Yanina Lucheiko, the owner of the Solar Estate – a house in the Carpathians, spoke about this during the farmers’ conference “Starting Solidarity Farming in Ukraine”.
A small home farm can become a tourist product and attract guests from cities, especially given our quarantine life, when we can not travel abroad. We are looking for new opportunities in Ukraine and find them very often in the Ukrainian countryside.
The activity of home agriculture and farming becomes a component of the tourist product. What was not so popular before now has a chance to gain popularity, ”Yanina Lucheiko is convinced.
“Farms and agriculture are gaining new roles and becoming tourist destinations worth visiting. This is great when a homestead, hotel, or other accommodation facility has the opportunity to invite guests to visit a farm or farm. Taste there and buy food, “- adds the hostess of the estate.
Visiting such farms can be a great opportunity to take part in agricultural processes, says Yanina Lucheiko. For city dwellers, this can be an extraordinary attraction. What is ordinary and simple for farmers, for people from the city can be a very interesting activity, even for the whole day.
It also gives an opportunity to get acquainted with the life and culture of the area. It’s one thing to visit popular tourist locations, it’s quite another – when you go on the route, go to an ordinary village hut, where cheese is cooked, and cooking cheese is a daily job here… For guests, it can even be a culture shock when people learn how a certain product is made.
Unfortunately, many people in the countryside still say: but nothing will come of it; what, tourists will watch how we graze cattle, whether we do something in a stable?
But in fact, all this is a ready-made tourist product. You just have to describe it, present it and give it the right shape. To tell why it is very important and why it is valuable for guests “, – the founder of the estate emphasizes.
“If we can look at our area, our villages from a different perspective, we can find many options that can be done here. All this leads to the creation of new jobs and the attraction of micro-investments – money that guests (tourists) spend in this area. In Ukrainian villages, unfortunately, there is no accounting of own income yet, because of this the value of guests (tourists) is underestimated. But if we take into account – count the money that tourists bring to the village, we will understand that this is a pretty good profit. If this is developed, it can become a decent place for peasants to work in their villages, and it will not be necessary to go abroad to earn money, ”Yanina Lucheiko is convinced.
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Source: Ukrgate
