The establishment of industries in rural areas will help to reduce____________-

Analyze the question: The question asks which type of migration is reduced when industries are set up in rural areas.

Concept: Migration is named by where people leave and where they go. The format is "origin-destination":

• Rural-Urban migration: people move from villages to towns and cities
• Urban-Rural migration: people move from cities to villages

People usually leave rural areas for cities because they want jobs, better pay, and better amenities such as electricity, hospitals, and schools. This is called the "pull" of the city and the "push" of rural poverty and unemployment.

Solution:

1. If industries are built in rural areas, jobs are created locally.
2. Rural dwellers, especially young people, then have employment and income where they live.
3. Infrastructure such as roads, power, and water usually improves around industries.
4. Because the push factors are weaker, fewer people leave for the cities.
5. So the migration that falls is Rural-Urban migration.

Checking the other options:

• A. Urban-Rural: this would probably increase, not decrease, as industries attract people to rural areas.
• C. Rural-Rural: not the main issue here.
• D. Urban-Urban: unrelated to rural industrialisation.

Answer: B. Rural-Urban migration

Tip: Read migration terms as "FROM-TO." Whenever a question talks about rural development, such as industries, electricity, or roads, think of reducing rural-urban drift. This is also a common theme in Nigerian economics essays on the problems of urbanisation, such as overcrowding in Lagos, unemployment, and pressure on housing.