The Farm Management Case Study was carried out atKyanja Agricultural Resource Centre which is located 13.7km from Kampala via Gayaza – Kampala road at Kumusanvu The Kyanja Agricultural resource Centre was set up in 2013 by Kampala Capital City Authority to demonstrate urban agriculture, a special form of food production system in Kampala. The facility is set up on 31 acres of land in Kyanja Parish, Nakawa division. The farm trains over 10,000 visitors from all over Uganda including Kampala, Mukono, Wakiso, Mpigi, Isingiro, Masindi, Mubende, Hoima Luwero, Kiboga, Jinja, Watoto church. These also include a team of staff from KCCA, UNRA, UPDF, Uganda Prisons and students from Bukalasa Agricultural College, Makerere University and MUBS. These are trained on urban farming enterprises at the center. They are also trained on agribusiness management, cost benefit analysis of all enterprises at the resource center. There is always free training at the Centre every Wednesday and Saturday from 8:00am to 2:00pm. The soils in the area are as Aric Feralsols found within the Tropical Savanah grassland. The area receives a bimodal, annual rainfall total of 1353 mm, highest in April and lowest in February. The mean annual temperature ranged from 20.30C (lowest in July) to 22.00C (highest in February) [Chapter One]. Chapter Two describes organization and management where top manager within the farm is the managing director. Under him is the farm/operations manager, accountant, agriculturist, team leader and workers. The estate has both crop and animal with a vegetable production unit, Kuroiler brooding unit, Hydroponic fodder unit and Aquaculture (fish farming). The inventories description on the farm include, labor inventory, furniture and fitting inventory, machines, tools and equipment inventory, and farm structures inventory. Physical production records include, vegetable sales record, total sales records, Labor records, fuel records and inventory records. This is shown in Chapters Three and Four. Farm financial analysis of the farm (that includes A Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement); and measures of capital position were carried out and this is indicated in Chapter Five. Results indicate that the Kyanja Agricultural Resource Centre is in a better financial position to continue operating and it will continue to make profits if it continues with the scale of operation or even greater profits with improvement in production techniques. Chapter Six describes how the farm could carry out good budgeting for maximum production in the year 2019. The last Chapter (Chapter Seven) summarizes the problems facing the farm, suggesting possible solutions and recommendations.

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