Rural - Urban Mobility: Impact on Farming Productions and Distributions. A Case Study of Osun State Local Government Area, Nigeria

The frictions encountered in urban- rural movements particularly raw materials and farming produce necessitates provision of motor able roads particularly; industrial society’s man lives today. This paper intends to address lopsidedness in mobility infrastructural provisions in Ola Oluwa and Iwo local government area, Osun state, Nigeria. The study analyzed the effects of moving rural produce and distributions to urban areas and the cost- profit`s relationships arising from bad transport landscape in recent times, in the study area. The study population consists of 3,500 farmers in ten settlements. Purposive sampling technique and random sampling technique were used, noted for crops farming, random sampling technique was used to select 360 farmers out of the 3,500 farmers from the ten rural settlements in two local governments of Osun state. Primary and secondary data were used; non-parametric research tools were employed for the analysis of data collected. The regression results indicate a strong relationship between transportation variables and delivery efficiency (R2= 0.673), as well as between transportation cost and farmers` profitability (R2 = 0. 452). The study found out that malady in the movements of farmers` inputs and outputs had brewed lots of shortages to the rural farmers’ income. It, however, recommended that actionable policies and skillful transport experts should be entrusted with rehabilitation and periodic examinations on the progress of rural road maintenances in the study area.