Impact Of Urbanization On Farm Size And Output In Two Selected Communities In Anambra And Abia State

ABSTRACT

Long 1998, defined urbanization as the process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas. Jocelyn Collins (2001) defined urbanization as the process in which the number of people living in cities increases compared with the number of people living in rural areas. Urbanization is also defined as the annual rate of change of the percentage of people living in urban areas, or the difference between the growth rate of urban population and that of total population. . Urbanization is the outcome of the social, economic and political developments that lead to urban concentration and growth of large cities, changes in land use and transformation from rural to metropolitan pattern of organization and government in effect. Output is the quantity of goods or services produced in a given time period, by a farm, industry or country. Whether consumed or used for further production. Wikipedia (2014) Farm size as defined by Lund (1983), there is no generally accepted measure of firm size in the economics literature to guide the choice in the specifically agricultural context. various measures of output, sales or turnover, of inputs, both flow and stock based (e.g. number of employees or value of fixed capital); and of the incomes (accruing are capitalized) of a company's equity holders have been used in different contexts.