Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Commercial Production of Sunflower Boosting Tourism Industry: A Feasibility Study
Commercial Production of Sunflower Boosting Tourism Industry: A Feasibility Study
Sunflower Boosting
Tourism Industry: A
Feasibility Study
INTRODUCTION
One of the most helpful way to boost the local economy is
by attracting visitors to visit your area by providing a
tourist destination. Nowadays, there are a lot of tourist
attractions emerging in different locations. People are
adventurous and more curious when there's a new sites
and destinations comes up. Philippine tourism
development today, has taken a major leap forward by
incorporating agricultural and environmental activities
into its programs that encourage active involvement and
participation of people and their communities.
Specifically, these are the agri-tourism and
eco-tourism endeavors of institutions,
organizations, local government units, or
even individuals who use technologies
generated and developed out of agricultural
research and development (R&D) and
protection and conservation practices on the
environment as a profitable activities for
tourists, including its aesthetic valuation.
In the Department of Agriculture (DA), agri-tourism is a
welcome initiative that opened doors for development,
according to an article of www.pinoybisnes.com. If roses
symbolizes love and romance, not many of us know that
sunflowers symbolizes adoration and loyalty. Sunflowers
are also known for being happy flower because of its color
that brings joy to the people. Sunflower is a common crop
among American Indian tribes throughout North America.
Evidences suggested that the plant was cultivated by
American Indian in Arizona and New Mexico about 3000
B.C.
By the 19th century, Russian farmers were growing over 2 million
acres of sunflower. During these times there are two specific types
of sunfower that had been identified. According to Farmers
Almanac.com that “sunflowers are heliotropic”. This means that
they turn their flowers to follow the movement of the sun across the
sky. It has a latin name “Helianthus Annuus”. Helianthus means sun
while Annuus means flower. Sunflower belongs to the family of
Asteraceae. The plant has a rough, hairy stem, broad, coarsely
toothed, rough leaves and circular heads of a flower according to
Khaleghizadeh,2011.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The results of the study will be of great benefit of the following: