3. 4. Chapter Summary
Rural development is one of the main targets of many countries. Agriculture had been played a significant role in the rural development in the past. However, due to several reasons such as open economic policies and globalization and liberalization of agricultural trade, now agriculture sector of several countries have gone down. Moreover, lots of other problems like high cost of production, low productivity, lack of modern technology, marketing problems are also in the sector. Owing to this situation for a certain period of time, rural development was expected through modernization approach paying emphasis on rural industries. By now, it has failed and a latest rural development is again pay attention highly on agricultural development in a sustainable way. In this background, the main challenges are to find ways and means of save the agriculture sector and get the contribution of it for the rural development as agriculture is the main resource available in rural areas. Many studies have identified agritourism as an important alternative in this regard due to its special characters to rejuiniail the agriculture sector and the rural development. Therefore, research on agritourism and rural development will be important for Sri Lanka as it is an agricultural country.
农村发展是许多国家的主要目标之一。农业在过去的农村发展中起到了重要的作用。然而，由于一些原因，如开放的经济政策和全球化和自由化的农业贸易，现在的几个国家的农业部门已经下降。此外，许多其他的问题，如生产成本高，生产效率低，缺乏现代技术，市场营销的问题也在该部门。针对这种情况，在一定时期内，农村发展有望通过现代化建设的方式，重点放在农村工业。到现在为止，它已经失败，一个最新的农村发展再次高度重视农业发展的一种可持续的方式。在这种背景下，主要面临的挑战是寻找节约农业部门的方式和手段，并为农村发展的贡献，农业是农村地区的主要资源。许多研究已经确定了观光农业在这方面由于其特殊的性质rejuiniail农业和农村发展的重要选择。因此，对农业和农村发展的研究将成为斯里兰卡重要的它是一个农业国。
