Objective of the MACP is to increase the productivity, profitability and market access of the farming community in Maharashtra.  This would be achieved by providing farmers with technical knowledge, market intelligence and market networks to support diversification and intensification of agriculture production aimed at responding to market demands. Farmers will also be assisted in establishing farmer organizations, developing alternative(e) market channels outside of the regulated markets and in supporting the modernization of promising traditional wholesale markets. The project has three components viz., (i) Intensification and diversification of market led production; (ii) Improving farmer access to markets by promoting alternative markets and modernizing existing APMCs, and (iii) project coordination and management.

NABARD – SHPI (Self Help Group Promoting Institute) – Nabard’s Micro Credit Innovations Department (MCID)’s launching ed of its Pilot Phase of the SHGs (Self Help Groups) Bank Linkage Programme in February 1992 is proved as a landmark development in banking with the poor .The strategy involves forming small, cohesive and participative groups of the poor, encouraging them to pool their thrift regularly and using the pooled thrift to make small interest-bearing loans to members and, in the process, learning the nuances of financial discipline.