Questions: 1.) What actions would have to be taken to transform your 'typical' farm into an agritourist farm? 2.) Select and compare a 'typical' farm and an agritourist farm in terms of: (i) the amount and quality of land; (ii) fixed assets; (iii) plant production and animal production; and (iv) farming objectives. 3.) In view of Table 7.4, list basic differences in the management of a farm and an agritourist farm. 4.) Analyze the share in the total income of an agritourist farm of agritourism-related income. What are the consequences of this fact?
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Relationships between the Agricultural and Tourist Activity in Agritourist Farms
In view of the differences in the management practices of an agricultural farm and an agritourist farm a question arises: what is the relationship between the agricultural activities and the agritourist activity? There may be various types of relationships: complementary, supplementary, competitive and even antagonistic.
A complementary relationship consists in the fact that both activities constitute a deliberate structural entity and an increase in the importance of the agri- tourist activity causes an increase of the agricultural activity and vice versa. If a farm receives more guests, it needs more agricultural products that could be used as food. Apart from the external possibilities of sales of agricultural products, a new ready market opens. Guests staying on a farm often buy even those prod- ucts the farmer could not sell otherwise. This relationship may also work in the opposite direction. For example, if the farmer had a larger strawberry plantation where tourists could pick the fruit, he would have more guests.
Agritourist products may also be competitive in relation to certain agricul- tural activities. Competition may concern the use of all resources of the farm, i.e. land,
There may also be an antagonistic relationship between the agricultural and agritourist activity, i.e. a situation in which one activity excludes the other. The most drastic example of antagonism between agritourism and agricultural production concerns integrated livestock production, especially pig herds. Agritourist activity near large pig, poultry or cattle farms is virtually excluded. Tourists usually do not accept this kind of production because of the offensive odour. All forms of agricultural production that are a source of unpleasant odours exclude agritourist activity. Poultry farms also are not a favourable element for the devel- opment of agritourism. However, on a multipurpose farm, where two or three pigs are kept, agritourists will accept them with pleasure. Also certain forms of crop production may not favour agritourism, especially those related to the use of pesticides. Agritourism may also exclude agricultural activity. In particular this concerns products that require strict limitation of access for veterinary and phytosanitary reasons.
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1.) What actions would have to be taken to transform your 'typical' farm into an agritourist farm?
2.) Select and compare a 'typical' farm and an agritourist farm in terms of: (i) the amount and quality of land; (ii) fixed assets; (iii) plant production and animal production; and (iv) farming objectives.
3.) In view of Table 7.4, list basic differences in the management of a farm and an agritourist farm.
4.) Analyze the share in the total income of an agritourist farm of agritourism-related income. What are the consequences of this fact?
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