Özet:

One of the ultimate goals in rural development is to increase the standard of living of women living in all rural areas of our country by enabling their employment to develop towards entrepreneurship and to make it possible for these women to approach their life standards to the ones of the women living in urban areas. The aim of the present study was to demonstrate the importance of women entrepreneurship developing lately, in terms of the sustainability of rural development. Beyond a general understanding of development in today's conditions, rural development where local resources are assessed offers a competitive advantage for the developing countries. In this sense, it is important that entrepreneurship practices be encouraged in order to strengthen women's employment in rural areas and all institutions in the economy cooperate with each other. In this context, the applications for increasing women's entrepreneurship in the rural areas of Afyonkarahisar province and their results will be evaluated. As a result, thanks to the projects carried out by Afyonkarahisar Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry within the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry; if rural women are given the opportunities to express themselves in the sense of entrepreneurship and the social and economic equipment provided by women living in the city are provided it is believed that they may be successful in this field.

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