- Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Dergisi
- Vol: 32 Issue: 2
- Examination of Urban-Rural Migration in Delta State, Nigeria: Implications for the Agricultural Exte...
Examination of Urban-Rural Migration in Delta State, Nigeria: Implications for the Agricultural Extension Service
Authors : Albert OFUOKU
Pages : 79-85
Doi:10.13002/jafag745
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Publication Date : 2015-07-01
Article Type : Research
Abstract :This study was conducted to examine urban-rural migration in Delta State, Nigeria and its implication for extension service. Data were collected from 180 respondents who were purposively selected. It was discovered that most of the migrants were males, mostly in the age range of 50 years and above; mostly married and had one form of formal education or the other; had average household size of 6 persons. Most of them have spent 6-10years in the rural area and their migration was mostly prompted by retirement. The selected socio economic variables of the migrants had significant relationship with the decisions of the migrants to engage in agricultural activities. Implications of the findings for extension service include identifying and training the migrants on the current skills and technologies of agriculture, taking advantages of their level of exposure and experiences in the urban areas to make them opinion leaders and identifying them a year before their retirement in order to provide them with training in the agricultural enterprise of their choice.Keywords : Urban-rural migration, opinion leader, agricultural extension service, retirees, agricultural development.