The Government of India introduced the Fish Farmers Development Agency (FFDA) program to provide self employment and financial, technical and extension support to fish farming in rural areas. The present work makes a comparative study of the functioning of FFDA in the two districts of Burdwan and Birbhum in the state of West Bengal in India. It assesses the impact of FFDA on the productivity of fish farming and on fish farmers income. It examines the contribution of FFDA program in the economic upliftment of the rural economy in these two districts. It also identifies the problems faced by...