Tiruvannamalaiதிருவண்ணாமலை

What the plan promotes

• ▸Groundnut value addition — the district's One District One Product; Tiruvannamalai filed the third-highest number of PMFME applications in the country, and the PLP's explicit ask post-relaxation of PMFME guidelines is to widen the food-processing funnel
• ▸Dairy development (₹191.46 cr potential, the largest allied-agri line) — 1,024 milk collection centres and 557 dairy cooperative societies already operating, with AAVIN's skimmed-milk-powder cum butter/ghee unit at Ammapalayam able to absorb higher procurement
• ▸Millet cultivation and processing — GoTN's special millets zone covers Tiruvannamalai for the UN International Year of Millets, with Millet Festivals organized at state and district level and increased millet acreage a named 2023-24 thrust
• ▸Rural tourism 'country vacation' farm stays — pilgrim flow to Arunachaleswara temple and Ramanashramam plus the agrarian hinterland; the Rural Development Department is to promote rural tourism in Chengam, Jawadh Hills, Pudupalayam, Thandrampet and Tiruvannamalai blocks
• ▸Handloom and weaving revival — Arni Silk and Vandavasi mat are district signatures; handloom is the major off-farm activity in Arni, Vandavasi and Cheyyar taluks, with weavers societies in Arni and Chetpet needing concerted investment
• ▸Storage and warehousing (₹91.06 cr) — rural godowns under WIF, cold-storage expansion by the Department of Agri Marketing, and a completed 5,000 MT FPF cold storage at the market committee campus waiting for an operator

Gaps the plan names

• ▸5,000 MT cold storage at the Thiruvannamalai market committee campus (FPF-funded) is nearing completion but the department is finding it difficult to find takers for leasing — built capacity with no operator
• ▸Share of long-term finance is extremely low — capital formation in agriculture through term lending is the district's named constraint; bankers told to improve long-term finance by linking with GSS
• ▸Weavers cooperative societies in Arni and Chetpet blocks are at the verge of closing — handloom infrastructure for the Arni Silk cluster is decaying
• ▸Storage capacity short of need — rural godown construction under WIF and cold-storage expansion by the Department of Agri Marketing named to cut perishable wastage; farmers still need to be brought onto the Negotiable Warehouse Receipt System
• ▸Irrigation depends on tanks and dug wells with drought becoming more frequent — water management, conservation and watershed development named priority interventions