Commodity Marketing and Services Systems’ Relationship with Spacio-Economic Interactions in Akure City and Its’ Inner Towns and Villages

Abstract

Spatio-economic interactions among different categories of people and communities are crucial to the promotion of regional development in different parts of the world. Indeed, spatio-economic interactions involve both the movement of people from one place to another in order to undertake specific socio-economic activities that are capable of generating wealth for the people and the organizations that are involved in such movements and activities. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the commodity marketing and services systems’ relationship with the spacio-economic interactions in Akure city and its’ inner towns and villages in Nigeria. A simple questionnaire was adopted for the study. The study utilized both primary and secondary data. A structured questionnaire as well as interview was used to obtain the relevant data from a sample of twenty respondents. The discussion of Findings show that the Agricultural Product Marketing System in Akure and its’ Inner Towns and Villages involve all categories of human settlement in the region in our consideration of agricultural product marketing activities and analysis. The study also revealed that the general orientation of the industrial product marketing sub-system in the region is almost the complete reversal of the agricultural marketing sub-system. Conclusively. There is need to intensity the caution that hunters and poachers should exercise restraint in killing animals in the vegetations secondly. The federal and state governments should not abandon the cocoa farmers to their fate. The cocoa farmers should not be left perpetually in the hands of the private cocoa merchants. Rather, the government ought to be involved indirectly in cocoa production through the provision of subsidy on inputs such as pesticides and storage devices.

Keywords: Marketing, services systems relationship, Economic interaction, city, village.