World Bank financed ‘Assam Agricultural Competitiveness Project’ AACP’s basic objective is to increase the productivity and the market access of targeted farmers and community groups. Key indicators of success would be increased yields of crops, fish and livestock products - complemented by an increase in the proportion of marketed surplus. Although the over-riding objective is to stimulate the growth of Assam’s agricultural economy, project activities are predominantly pro-poor, directed primarily at small and marginal landholders, poor fishing communities and the landless. The project also aims to empower the poor farming communities (as clusters/ groups) by providing knowledge-tools-financial support for achieving higher agriculture productivity and facilitate efficient linkages with agriculture commodity markets for better remunerative prices and thereby ensuring an increase in farm family income.