Urban Agriculture is a paradoxical phrase. Rural Agriculture is an accepted culture of humanity. Tillers of the land doing the traditional agriculture have always placed themselves in quiet environs, skirted by hills and valley watersheds, skirted by forests. They enjoy a vast space big enough to accommodate productive plants, shrubs and trees, and big enough to raise a bountiful harvest of grains, greens, roots and fruits to satisfy the hunger of family, draught animals and fellow citizens of the county or country. It is easy to visualize agriculture with open skies, rising mountains, running rivers, flowing valleys, oceans of forests and bowls of lakes and water-bodies that sustain the thirst of crops and animals in the hot summers.
Agriculture is colossal in magnitude and occupies vast spaces.
It is difficult to visualize agriculture in the restricted canvass of urban settings. Cities are built on commercial calculations where space is sold to the highest bidder, where he lives in a confined environment - tailored boxes. Cities are also forests, roads and concrete jungles. The original town planners made provision for open areas - parks and gardens, lakes, open horizons, and walking paths. She is the personification of modesty.