Urban agriculture is an important survival strategy for the urban poor.It is gaining in importance as an intervention area for poverty alleviation as cities grow and add on areas which have agriculture as a mainstay of livelihood. Municipalities with large agriculture areas in the process of transformation can capitalise through taking responsibility of intensive agricultural produce within their boundaries. This possesses a great potential for economic and social contribution of urban farmers. Some of the issues of concern in promoting urban agriculture relate to land use and land tenure problems, water for irrigation, lack of technical assistance and marketing for small sacle producers.