This question was very popular among the candidates and they performed well in the (a)  aspect of the question.  In the (b)  aspect of the question, some candidates compared rural and urban areas rather than emphasizing their interdependence.  Urban centres depend on rural centres for:
  -           food supply
  -           unskilled labour
  -           raw materials for Industries
 -           medicinal herbs
   -           housing
-           tourism and recreational sites
-           cultural and traditional history and artifacts
-           sale of manufactured goods
-           lumbered wood and fuel

Rural centres depend on urban centres for:

•       -           processed goods
•  -          social amenities
•       -           employment
•       -           farm inputs
• -           administrative and political direction
• -           ideas and innovations
• -           dissemination of information
• -           higher education
• -           transfer of modern technology