TNAPEx – Rendering Niche Services to Accelerate Food Processing MSME Business Transformation Food processing essays a critical role in an agrarian economy like India; it’s all the more profound in states like Tamil Nadu which produces diverse food crops. Value wise, nationally, Tamil Nadu ranks 5th in export of agriculture and animal produce, and 6th in export of fisheries products. And the larger objective is to better these rankings. Tamil Nadu is in a vantage position to achieve the same, thanks to robust infrastructure like rail & road networks, airports, sea ports and more.