Poultry farming
SKM. Maeilanandhan was born as "S.K.Mayilsamy Gounder", a name he discarded to take up the present one, in 1945, in a small hamlet, Saminathapuram near Modakurichi, Erode Taluk near Erode, an inland commercial city in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, in an agricultural family. Choosing not to pursue a farming career, Maeilanandhan opened a small general store in Modakurichi Erode in 1965, which over the years, grew into a 25 billion business group, with diverse activities covering Fertilizer distribution, Poultry farming, Animal feeds and marketing, Siddha and Ayurveda medicines, and composed of: