Urban agricultural activities are attracting considerable interest from both developed and developing countries. It has been indicated universally that urban agriculture is a vital component for the existence of most cities, especially in the developing countries where it contributes substantially to the urban economy of the city dwellers in *Corresponding author  terms of employment and the supply of food (UNDP, 1996; Danso, 2002). Urban agriculture is a complex system encompassing wider spectrum from core of activities associated with the production, processing, marketing, distribution and consumption of food and non food, plant and tree crops and animal husbandry both within urban and peri-urban areas; to multiplicity of other benefits and services that are less widely acknowledge and documented (Maxwell and Ziwa, 1992; Mazingira, 1994; Butler and Moronek, 2002; Smit, et. al., 2002). Danso (2002), however, viewed urban agriculture in Nigeria as the growing of plant and the raising of animals for food and other uses within and around cities or towns, and related activities such as the production and delivery of inputs, and the processing and marketing of agricultural products. Urban agriculture take place within a city and its metropolis and it comprises of a variety of production systems, ranging from subsistence production and processing at household level to fully commercialized agriculture (Danso, 2002).