Migration And Rural Productivity In Ekiti State, A Case Study Of Ise/Orun Local Government Area.

ABSTRACT

Migration in general has its benefits and adverse effect in rural society, the

primary aim of this study was to examine migration and rural productivity in Ekiti

State, a case study of Ise/Orun Local Government Area. The study further on

rev1ewmg comprehensive and comparative literatures, which presented

thematically, the study was supported by Push-Pull theory of migration and

Dependency theory of development. For the purpose of this study, Survey design

was adopted and missed method was employed which composed quantitative and

qualitative methods, while Self-administered Questionnaire and scheduled

structured interview were used to elicit the needed information. Cluster, Simple

Random Sampling Without Replacement (SRSWOR) and Accidental were

employed as a sampling techniques to gathered information from 177 respondents,

while purposive and snowballing were adopted to select the 20 discussants under

the scheduled structured interview. Thus, the gathered information from the

participants was processed and analyzed through (SPSS), reports and content

analysis. Normal frequency distribution was used for the entire variables, while

Chi-Square and Linear regression were adopted to test the hypotheses under

investigation. Findings revealed that rural productivity was burdened by migration,

since most of the migrants are the able-bodied youths and prime working age. The

major reasons for migration are employment opportunity, educational pursuit,

while the migration is directed to urban cities. The implication of migration to the

migrants and rural society revealed that migration had led to rural poverty, brain

drain, productivity in the hands of aged, low productivity, loss of life and property

at the course of migration and the issues of remittances positively. Based on the results of this study recommendation were made.