Gopalpatti PPC is built inside the regulated market complex which is situated on the SH35 Dindigul to Natham road, giving it easy access to the road transport. This location is a major Tamarind growing and trading cluster. It caters the trading, processing, and export community of production clusters around Gopalpatti. The crop grown around a radius of 30km can be processed in Gopalpatti PPC.
Gopalpatti PPC is well equipped with a packhouse and additional handling area to handle about 1.6 MT of Tamarind on a daily basis. This PPC is established to focus on handling Tamarind. Other basic amenities such as admin block, power station and sanitary blocks are also provided inside the premises.
Apart from the above the PPC is having a 500 MT cold storage facility to cater the farmers and other stakeholders to store the Tamarind, fruits, vegetables and other perishables in it. It also has an additional handling area cum packhouse to handle more produce during the peak season. It also provides an opportunity to set up any value addition unit in the pack house.
A quality control lab is provided in the facility for the assessment of the quality of produce before and after processing. This is to ensure the quality standards of the produce delivered from the processing centre.