@article{Yeboah:229824,
      recid = {229824},
      author = {Yeboah, Anthony K. and Owens, John Paul and Bynum,  Jarvetta and Okafor, Ralph},
      title = {Case Studies of Agritourism among Small Farmers in North  Carolina},
      address = {2015-10-01},
      number = {1376-2016-109661},
      pages = {15},
      month = {Oct},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Case study research was undertaken as an initial step  towards studying the critical factors that influenced the  adoption of agritourism as an additional enterprise by  small farmers in North Carolina. The unit of analysis in  this study was the principal operator of the farm that  provided agritourism services. Human factors such as age,  gender, household income before taxes, and ethnicity and  educational background of principal operator were perceived  to be the most common elements. Production variables such  as total acreage deemed unsuitable for crop production, the  farm organization, economic situation of the farm and the  geographic location of the farm and access to internet were  also deemed to be common features. The need to generate  additional income was often cited among the goals of  operators in adding agritourism to their farm operations.  Most operators charged activity-based fees and cited  weather and liability issues as the principal challenges to  their agritourism enterprises. They had a more positive  outlook for their individual agritourism business than they  had for the industry as a whole in the state.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/229824},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.229824},
}