Erode Agriculture Producers’ Cooperative Marketing Society is functioning since 1960 and the society is procuring turmeric from the farmers and is selling them for good prices. Since, 2015 the society is marketing the turmeric in the name of ‘Mangalam Manjal Thool’ and was helping the farmers, to a greater extent.

To give fillip to the sale of turmeric and other grocery products Chief Minister launched a new website, ‘managalammasala.com,’ where all the cooperative grocery products including turmeric would be sold online at a relatively lower price. Also, a new app named ‘Mangalam Masala’ was also launched by Palaniswami.

The app and the website will sell products of other cooperative societies across the state and the customers can shop on the website just like any other e-commerce website. The products sold on mangalammasala.com website and the app have been split into six categories, spices, masala, grocery, pooja, oil and millets.

The raw materials for the products would be procured from the farmers, who belong to the respective cooperative societies and value addition would be done for the products by the concerned cooperative society. After value addition the products would be listed on the website and after obtaining orders the products would be shipped from the cooperatives.

Palaniswami also inaugurated Rs 86.47 lakh worth storage containers and warehouses of Civil Supplies department in Madurai, Karur, Namakkal and Nagapattinam districts. The projects include seven warehouses and 16 paddy storage silos. While the warehouses are situated in Madurai, Karur, Nagapattinam and Namakkal districts the paddy storage silos are situated only in Nagapattinam district.

The 16 paddy storage silos cost Rs 64.27 crore and the capacity of each of the silos is 50,000 metric tonnes. However, the storage capacity of the warehouses varies between 1,000 metric tonnes to 5,000 metric tonnes.