The TN agriculture budget 2026-27, presented by agriculture minister R. Vinoth on Thursday, brought cheer to the hill farmers and tribes as quite a few schemes to cover the Nilgiris found their way into the budget. Commending the maiden agriculture budget of the TVK-led government, Manjai V. Mohan, president of the Nilgiris Ari Gowder Farmers Association, an umbrella organisation of various farmers associations in the Nilgiris, said while the government had been taking efforts to promote organic farming in the Nilgiris in a big way, the schemes envisaged in the budget to further encourage and promote organic farming were welcome. The provision made for establishing vermicompost units, organic certification process and related schemes will give confidence for the farmers to switch to organic farming, he noted. “Likewise, the Tamil Nadu minor millet mission to encourage cultivation of millets such as little millet, foxtail millet and kodo millet will help the hill farmers revert to millet cultivation in a big way. The wild boar damage prevention scheme is expected to do a world of good to the hill farmers who had been seeking government support to end the boar-farmer conflict.