Policy measures to reduce rural-urban migration
- Rural industrialization. Industries can be set it its rural areas in order to create employment opportunities in the rural areas and discourage people from migrating from rural areas to urban centers in search of employment opportunities.
- Education reforms. The education system should be made practical and relevant for living in rural areas in order to avoid migration of educated people to urban areas in search for white collar jobs.
- Provision of social and economic infrastructures such as banks, roads, rails, school, health facilities, electricity and recreational facilities to make rural areas as attractive as urban centers.
- Ensuring political stability. This avoids a situation in which people insecurity in rural areas migrate to urban centers for safety.
- Stabilization of agricultural prices to minimize rural urban income gap. This can be done by finding new markets for agriculture products whose prices are high. It can also be achieved by processing agricultural products to add value.
- Encouraging the use of appropriate techniques of production to provide employment opportunities to rural population instead of using capital intensive techniques that displace labour.
- Diversification of economic activities in the rural areas to reduce dependence on nature that causes seasonal unemployment and seasonal migration of people from rural to urban centers.
- Rural support schemes and credit schemes. These are systems, which need to be created to stimulate the productivity of both small and large agricultural farms. These include making more effective and efficient the rural institutions directly connected with production such as banks, money banks lenders, public credit agencies and provision of services such as technical and educational extension services, storages and marketing facilities etc.
- Establishment of irrigation schemes as well as research into drought and disease resistant varieties to avoid seasonal unemployment.
- Population control through family planning as a means of increasing employment in the long run. This is because reduced population growth rates reduce the number of future jobs seekers which is one of the primary causes of rural- urban migration.
CATEGORIES Economics
TAGS Dr. Bbosa Science
