Tourism, a new platform for income generation in the villages of Tehran
The urban and rural economies were intertwined in recent years, and urban dwellers often supplied their necessities from the countryside; But this connection has diminished today due to the migration of many villagers, and some villages have moved away from the production cycle.
The village is one of the most important bases for the production of raw materials due to agriculture and animal husbandry and it is important to strengthen its economic strength, so that developed countries have put rural economic development at the top of their plans, while today due to various factors such as drought and Lack of water for agriculture Many villagers, including in Tehran province, migrate to cities to earn more money, which makes the rural economy more fragile.
To prevent the continuation of this process, maintaining the rural population of Tehran province and achieving sustainable development, it is necessary to find a different source of income in these places according to existing capacities.
The importance of this issue is such that the president recently said during one of his provincial trips that a large economic factory should be built in rural areas so that the suburbs of cities would not be formed and developed in this way.
Village or town?
After moving to Tehran province in search of suitable jobs and living facilities, some villagers have been forced to settle in villages or suburbs due to high permits. As a result, most of Tehran’s villages have distanced themselves from the rural physical system with a production approach. And have become dormitories and population colonies.
According to statistics, there are 800 villages in Tehran province that have accommodated 940,000 people.
However, “for some villages in Tehran province, the name of the village can no longer be used, because by being located on the outskirts of cities, they have become towns where the residents live according to the needs and demands of urban thinking.”
This was said by Ahmad Abbasi Dehyar of Chaltar Khan tourist village in Qala-e-Naw section of Rey city and continued: the villagers are facing problems in providing livestock and agricultural inputs and their production has been reduced.
He stressed that the government should help the villagers in preparing livestock and agricultural inputs, because it is their main source of income, and at the same time, the industry will be hit hard by reducing products and products.
Tourism development is a way to strengthen the economic strength of villages
Creating suitable spaces for tourism can be one of the important resources in developing the rural economy and helping to generate income for the villagers; The pristine and untouched nature of many villages is a good capacity to attract tourists, especially foreigners, and on the other hand, providing local, organic and healthy products to tourists, improves the economy of the villagers.
According to Dehyar, Chaltar Khan village, which is one of the target villages for tourism, the private sector should invest in this field in order to prevent the migration of villagers to the city in addition to employment for the youth.
Majid Ghasemi, who is Dehyar Zavarehvar from Javadabad district of Varamin city, considers the villages of this city as the center of agriculture and animal husbandry and believes that if investments are made in the field of handicrafts and tourism, the economy will prosper more in this village.
Also, according to Dehyar “Abbasabad Alaqband” from the functions of Khavaran section of Rey city, the agricultural capacity of the villages of this section has been transformed into gardens and recreational gardens by changing the use and by creating small and large industrial workshops around the villages and other water shortages. It is not the restoration of agricultural lands.
Davood Arab Ameri added: “Due to the recent drought in the villages of Khavaran district, the development of greenhouse cultivation should be developed, which requires less water consumption and land area.”
The need to support handicrafts and develop rural tourism
Dehyar of Chaltar Khan village, stating that Rey fire temple, lake, Mahour hill for car and motorcycle tracks are among the attractions of this village, also mentioned the importance of supporting tourism in the villages: In the negotiations I had with an investor It was decided to invest in the tourism sector of the village, but with the increase in the dollar rate and the consequent increase in the price of construction materials and raw materials, he abandoned his decision.
Abbasi said: “There were workshops such as handicrafts, pottery and enameling in this village, which were closed due to the increase in the price of raw materials needed and the inability of workshop officials to provide them, and activists of these departments migrated to other villages and there.” They set up a workshop for the production of flakes and candies, but were unable to produce this product due to the increase in the price of sugar.
He reminded that the owners of other workshops, such as production workshops, have faced problems with the increase in the price of raw materials and the lack of liquidity in supplying the required materials, and the government must provide low-interest facilities for their survival.
Dehyar Zavarehvar from Javadabad district of Varamin city also explained about the problems of income generation in the villages: Although most of the residents of Alaqband village are skilled in producing handicraft products such as wooden products and basket weaving, but those in charge of providing land to create workshops and permits They do not support. On the other hand, the import of similar goods of low quality wood products and cheaper prices has also dealt a great blow to the activists of this industry.
According to Arab Ameri, although in the industrial sector, workshops such as the production of auto parts, metal and decorative furniture have provided good employment for the villagers, but the waste of these workshops pollutes the environment and air.
He also referred to the tourism capacities of the village and said: government officials or investors by investing in this field and the existing potentials in the village, in addition to creating employment, can prevent the migration of villagers and people who migrate to the villages of Tehran in the same Work places to reduce traffic.
The importance of reviewing the issue of planning and development document of Tehran province
Considering the migration of a large number of job seekers to Tehran who need shelter, it seems that the province’s development document should be reviewed.
The acting deputy for coordination of civil affairs of Tehran province confirmed this issue and referring to the dormitory of some villages of Tehran province for immigrants, said: the issue of turning the villages of the province into dormitories for immigrants has been transferred to the Management and Planning Organization as one of the important concerns. And in the planning plan of the province, a study and a plan will be presented on this subject.
“Abed Maleki” added: with the concentration of services and industry in Tehran province, job seekers migrate to the capital, this population needs shelter for themselves and their families, so the issue of planning and development document should be reconsidered and evaluated again. To take.
Support of the Housing Foundation from the creators of eco-tourism places
However, “the Housing Foundation of the Islamic Revolution of Tehran Province provides housing facilities to applicants in rural areas to create and promote eco-tourism,” said the organization’s deputy for rural development.
In an interview with IRNA, Ali Khoeini stated: “The Housing Foundation of the Islamic Revolution, in addition to its organizational duty in eligible villages, has prepared and implemented a pilot project with a tourism approach, which with the presence of rural tourists and eco-tourism will strengthen the financial turnover.” Be provided economically.
He continued: the province’s housing foundation in cooperation with the Program and Budget Organization has studied the employment development document of the province’s villages, which is one of the goals of this project to create more than 20,000 jobs in the next five years.
According to the Deputy Minister of Rural Development of the Housing Foundation of the Islamic Revolution of Tehran Province, empowering the villagers by identifying comparative and regional advantages and striving for the development of potential talents and strengthening of actual capabilities is essential.
Regarding the priority of paying attention to rural development, Khoeini added: “Paying attention to the category of resistance economy and food security requires that the villagers be given special attention as the beating heart of agricultural products, livestock and the origin of handicrafts.”
He considered the villages as the cradle of various handicraft and conversion products and emphasized that by identifying the capabilities and supporting the villagers, not only the problems and problems of living and employment of the villagers will be solved, but also many of the current problems of the cities will be reduced.
Khoeini explained: In order to establish the property rights of individuals, identify property and prevent property disputes, this institution has issued an official document to more than 92,000 rural properties in a joint program with the registry office and delivered it to residents.
Rural artists are insured
The Deputy Handicrafts of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts of Tehran Province also identified the obsolete disciplines and unknown capacities in the villages as one of the plans of the General Directorate to preserve handicrafts and support artists in the villages in addition to covering them. Announced in the form of rural and nomadic insurance.
In an interview with IRNA, Parvaneh Heydari stated that the Deputy Director General of Cultural Heritage, in cooperation with the Labor Department, has provided 18 facilities to support home-based artists through Note 18, adding: “These facilities are in the form of support for workshop owners.” Given the number of active people in the workshop.
He added: The facilities for home and rural home businesses have been considered independently and with support by the Labor Office from 10 million tomans upwards with an interest rate of 9 to 12 percent.
According to Heidari, about 14,000 artists work in the form of more than one thousand workshops such as engraving, glass, rug embroidery and leather jewelry, about 60% of these workshops are located and active in the villages of Tehran province.
He pointed out: We are on the agenda of collecting files and documents of a number of villages, such as the potters of Varamin, in order to register them nationally in the not too distant future.
9 sample tourism areas in Tehran province
There are a total of 1,168 model tourism-approved regions in the country, which according to the Deputy Minister of Investment of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts of Tehran Province, the share of this province is 9 regions, so that in Parand, Damavand, Firoozkooh cities And Shemiranat each has 2 tourist areas and in Shahriar city there is one active tourist area.
Jalal Abbasi defined the typical tourist areas as the areas that are created next to the cultural, religious, natural and tourism attractions of the province to provide services to tourists.
He said: In the sample tourism areas of the province, each region has cultural welfare and tourism service centers from accommodation units to cultural, artistic, recreational, sports centers, parks, green space and other tourism services that will bring permanent employment.
He added that the government will support the expansion of these areas, including the calculation of energy costs, including water, electricity and gas, tourism projects with industrial tariffs, land use change from residential, agricultural and other to tourism in lands outside the city for free. Payment of facilities to applicants if there is sufficient budget for projects after physical progress of at least 30% with long-term installments and providing four to eight percent of interest and tax exemption up to 50% to applicants.
According to Abbasi, currently 9 sample natural tourism areas of Tehran province have a physical progress of five to 25 percent.
Agree in principle with 113 cases of construction of accommodation and catering in Tehran
The Deputy Minister of Investment for Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts of Tehran Province also pointed out that one of our important priorities in the prosperity of business in rural areas will be the establishment of eco-lodges, adding: “The purpose of developing these criteria is to preserve and Preserving traditional and indigenous culture, increasing tourism products and creating new types of tourist destinations and attractions.
He said: “Ecotourism resorts are places that are established in natural and indigenous environments with the highest possible level of environmental criteria and in a way compatible with indigenous architecture, historical context and natural appearance of the region, while maximizing interaction with the local community and attention.” Provide the climate for tourists with an acceptable and defined quality.
According to Abbasi, in the first six months of this year, 13 ecotourism resorts have been licensed in Tehran, Firoozkooh, Damavand, Mallard, Varamin and Robat Karim.
Operation of 150 rural sports houses in the province
The head of the Board of Rural and Indigenous and Local Games of Tehran Village said: “One of the programs of this board in rural areas and deprived areas is to create rural sports houses, which so far have more than 150 cases with the cooperation of villages, districts, federations and the General Directorate of Sports.” Tehran province has been exploited.
In an interview with IRNA, Hassan Davarzani added: Rural sports houses with an area of more than 50 meters and with 50 billion tomans of credit spent by the General Directorate of Sports of Tehran Province, the Rural Federation of the Anti-Narcotics Headquarters and equipping villages with sports equipment such as Tatami, ping pong tables, darts, handball and chess are equipped to create excitement among the villagers.
“We are trying to double rural sports houses over a four-year period, as these environments can reduce mobility, prevent underlying diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes, as well as addiction,” he said.
According to the referee, sports houses have been established in the villages of Tehran, Firoozkooh, Varamin, Shahri Rey, Mallard, Shahriyar, Quds, Firoozkooh, Damavand and Pardis.