The threats of rural-urban migration to agric sector

 
 Over the years, there has been this hue and cry by governments and public policy advisers against the phenomenon of the rural-urban drift.  Researches have been conducted on various aspects of this phenomenon which have resulted in the identification of the various causes and its repercussions.
In addition, prescriptions have been given to control the rural-urban migration.  Some causes of this migration are population pressures in some rural regions resulting in migration to urban regions in search of white collar jobs; higher wages in the urban centers compared to rural centers, and the rather naive, one of the 'bright lights' in the cities so much touted by early foreign sociologists.
  The most often mentioned consequences of this rural-urban migration include a decrease in population in the rural area, resulting to overcrowding in the urban area.  When the cities are overcrowded, accommodation and sanitation problems issues.  There would be decline in the quantity of food produced in the rural area, thus causing food price increase in the urban areas, as well as increasing urban unemployment.  These consequences results in heavy dwindling of the economy.
  Immediate intervention should be employed in preventing rural-urban migration, which include; provision of essential amenities like water, electricity, hospitals, schools and cinema houses and  construction of roads.
  These prescriptions are agents of transformation from rural to urban areas.  This is so because industrializing the rural areas would draw many people out of agriculture than if industries were restricted to urban areas.
  When industries are located in the rural areas, it involves much less cost for the prospective rural-urban migrants to change to a non-agricultural job, than is involved in their leaving a rural abode for a distant urban center.
  Therefore, rural industrialization holds a higher potential of declining the rate of agricultural employmentof the rural population than when industries are concentrated in urban areas.
  The phenomenon of rural-urban drift has been intensively and extensively researched and studied, but it would seem that it has largely been misinterpreted and misunderstood.  Consequently, public policies on the subject have largely been misdirected.