URBANIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON FARMERS: THE CASE OF WERABE TOWN, SILTE ZONE, SNNPR

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the impact of urbanization on farmers in the case of Werabe town. The general objective of this study is to assess the effect of urbanization on the farmers of the study area and the specific objectives of the study are to describe the current trend of urban expansion by losing agricultural land, analyze the social, environmental and economicimpacts. In order to achieve the studies objective both primary and secondary data source were used. Accordingly, primary data were collected from multiple sources such as selective households, municipality experts and Keble administrators by random sampling techniques.In addition, secondary data were collected from library books (published and unpublished books). This study used descriptive research designed and the researcher used simple random sampling techniques from the sample size of 212 households‟ from the total targeted population of 450 people who are affected by urban expansion. Major findings of the study indicate that rural-urban migration, absence of land information system, population growth, housing demand and infrastructure improvements were the major cause of urban expansionand identified social, economic problems of farmers and environmental pollution in the study area. The researcher tries to convert the gathering information to percentile to compute the result. Based on the result of the study, should be recommended that Werabe town municipality and any other concerning bodies should be take appropriate measures in line with the suggested recommendation in this study