The Assam Human Development Report, 2013-14 states that 84.3 per cent of farm families are ‘marginal’, with less than 7.5 bighas of land, while another 12.3 per cent are ‘poor’, having agriculture lands of 7.5-15 bighas. Only 2.2 per cent of the farm families are classified as ‘medium’, with agriculture land of 15-22 bighas, and another mere 1.1 per cent are ‘large farmers’ with more than 22 bighas of agriculture land. In Baksa district 81.9 per cent of the farmers are marginal, 14.6 per cent are poor, 2.2 per cent are marginal and only 1.3 per cent of farm families are large farmers, the HDR Assam Report states.