It will accommodate the offices of Agriculture, Horticulture, Agricultural Engineering, and Agri Business departments.
The plinth area will be 3,816 square feet for the ground floor and 1,586 square feet for the first floor.
C. Vijaya Baskar, Minister for Agriculture, laid the foundation for the centre at a function held at Viralimalai on Monday.
He said that an exclusive godown for inputs would be built at an expenditure of Rs. 32.61 lakh to stock seeds and fertilisers.
Under single roof
The objective of the integrated centre, he said, was to ensure services by various agriculture-related departments under single roof so that farmers, vegetable growers, sugarcane cultivators, and big farmers adopting mechanisation, would benefit.
S. Ganesh, District Collector, presided over the function.
Later, Mr. Vijaya Baskar, inspected the site chosen for the construction of the taluk office for Viralimalai. He inspected the newly-constructed bus stand which is to be declared open shortly.

Source : The hindu