Petrodollars provided urban employment, resulting in higher rural migration.

Market gardening around the city increased, spurred by growing unemployment, rural migration and the demand for vegetables.

Both towns were populated during the early 20th century, but with the advent of rural migration to larger communities, the sites gradually emptied.

Tukuche has lost much of it's population due to changes in trade routes and rural urban migration suffered by many small villages.

The general consequence of this is outlined in the literature on urban to rural migration by the middle class.

Like many regions in Africa, more traditional uses of the land have given way to rural migration to the larger cities.

Years of rural migration caused the population to drop to 25 persons (seven families) by 1958.

There was a lot of rural urban migration then, was that a good thing or a bad thing?

This situation was further aggravated by the end of civil war, with increasing rural migration.

However, in the last decades the rural migration from countryside to urban centers and the extensive exploitation of land has substituted traditional crops.