Rural Urbanization Analysis

A large factor that influenced the agricultural shift was the basis of our economy, in the late 1920’s we were transitioning from a primary farming economy to a more industrial economy and that prompted many people to move to the cities where jobs were being created faster then people could fill them. Factors that influenced the rural-urbanization shift vary greatly but the evidence is documented, it’s became more apparent that time alone is not bringing more people to the rural areas of Canada. Over the past 160 years the population of people living in rural areas, defined as areas with a population density below 400 people per square kilometre, has steadily declined. Further elaborating on the declining population, the people documented living

The cost of equipment, land, insurance, and all other capital is so high that it’s nearly impossible to get into the agriculture business without being rich or taking a hefty loan out of the bank. Those who do manage to start a farm face a struggling battle, many smaller farms with receipts less than $25,000 did not report enough farm income to cover their expenses in 2005 and the number of these cases have increased in most subsequent years. The amount of profit exists differently between all types of farming, and in fact, whether or not the farm becomes a million dollar farm depends on what they produce and if the year was good for them; a great example of a million dollar farm would be hog farming which only makes up 2.6% of all farms in Canada but yet 17.8% of those hog farms reported making over 1 million in gross farm receipts, field crops on the other hand, representing just over 30% of all the farms in Canada, only had 1.5% of them making over 1 million in gross farm receipts. It is known that the cost of farming is a big deterrent for people wishing to enter the industry, the number of farms in Canada continue to fall and yet nothing drastic is being done to support the would be farmers who represent the future of Canada’s farming

In a bygone time, the world was once an agricultural powerhouse but an economic shift disrupted the balance and created a domino effect leading to our modern day world where the very basis of agriculture remains questionable. The future of our Earth at this point in time revolves around agriculture and the finality of the situation is bleak; we need food and agriculture is on a downslope that seems to be unrecoverable. Government stimulation is necessary to bring interest back to the area that at one point held so much importance, but until that day comes, the trend won’t reverse itself. Many people don’t notice the severity of the problem but ignorance is possibly just as dangerous as the issue itself, the day people understand that something needs to change is the day that something finally gets done; it’s possible, however unlikely in nature, that we could return to the way we once were and farming could once again reign