District Profile – KVK Cuddalore

1. Major farming systems/enterprises (based on the analysis made by the KVK)

Major Farming system/enterprise	Crop system/enterprise with crop calendar
Irrigated situation-Command Areas: Heavy clay	Rice (June-Sep.) – rice (Oct.-Jan.) – pulses/gingelly (Feb.-May) Rice (Aug.-Jan.) – pulses/sesame/cotton (Jan.-April) Maize /vegetables/pulses/sesame/green manure (June-Sep.) – rice (Aug.-Feb.) – pulses (Feb.-May) Sugarcane (Dec.-Nov.) – ratoon sugarcane (Dec.- Nov.) – rice (Dec.-May) Groundnut (June-Sep./Oct.) – 3 years rotation
Irrigated situation-Tankfed areas	Rice/vegetables (Aug.-Jan.) – gingelly/pulses (Feb.- May
Irrigated situation-Well irrigated areas	Rice (June-Sep.) – rice (Oct.-Jan.) – pulses/gingelly (Feb.-May) Rice (Aug.-Jan.) – pulses/sesame/cotton (Jan.-April) Maize /vegetables/pulses/sesame/green manure (June-Sep.) – rice (Aug.-Feb.) – pulses (Feb.-May) Sugarcane (Dec.-Nov.) – ratoon sugarcane (Dec.- Nov.) – rice (Dec.-May) Groundnut (June-Sep./Oct.) – 3 years rotation
Rainfed situation	Maize/pearl millet (Jun.-Sep)/Groundnut (June-Sep.) Maize/Pearl Millet (Jun.-Sep) Groundnut (June-Sep.)
Coastal areas/assured water supply situation -Fisheries/ Aquaculture/ Marine culture in ponds	Marine culture in ponds (Throughout the year)
Assured water supply situation -Fisheries/ Aquaculture	Inland fish culture in farm ponds (Throughout the year)

2. Agroclimatic zone

S.No	Agro-climatic Zone	Characteristics
1.	North Eastern Zone	Cropping pattern: Rice-Rice-Pulses; Rice-Pulses / Sesame /Cotton Soil type: 1.Red Sandy Loam, 2. Clay Loam, 3. Saline coastal Alluvium

S.No

Agro-climatic Zone

Characteristics

North Eastern Zone

Cropping pattern: Rice-Rice-Pulses; Rice-Pulses / Sesame /Cotton

Soil type: 1.Red Sandy Loam, 2. Clay Loam, 3. Saline coastal Alluvium

3. Agro ecological situations

S.No.	Agro ecological situation	Soil type	Characteristics
1.	AES-I	Sandy Clay loam, Medium texture, Normal Rainfall, Well irrigated area	Diversified agriculture
2.	AES-II	Clay loam, Heavy texture, Normal Rainfall, Delta area	Paddy areas
3.	AES-III	Sandy clay loam, Medium to light texture, Rainfed area	Rainfed agriculture

4. Soil type

S.No	Soil type	Characteristics	Area in ha
1.	Sandy loam	Slightly acidic to alkaline in pH, Poor in water holding capacity, low in N, medium in P and K	91679
2.	Sandy	Neutral to Saline pH, poor in water holding capacity, low in N, medium in P and K.	31974
3.	Clay loam	Neutral to alkaline pH, poorly drained soil, medium in N, P and high in K.	115565
4.	Sandy Clay loam	Neutral to Saline pH, low in N, medium in P and K	128573
Total			367791

5. Weather data

Month	Rainfall (mm)	Temperature (°C)		Relative Humidity (%)
Month	Rainfall (mm)	Maximum	Minimum	Relative Humidity (%)
April 2018	0.0	37.7	26.7	72.3
May 2018	3.6	38.5	27.8	67.6
June 2018	53.6	37.6	27.2	67.2
July 2018	45.8	37.5	26.9	75.2
August 2018	93.8	36.9	26.1	76.45
September 2018	79.3	35.9	25.4	78.8
October 2018	180.0	35.4	24.9	80.2
November 2018	280.5	34.1	–	82.7
December 2018	70.8	33.7	–	84.8
January 2019	7.0	32.1	20.1	84.1
February 2019	0.0	34.0	20.4	76.4
March 2019	0.0	37.0	24.2	74.7

CUDDALORE DISTRICT PROFILE

Geographical Details
Demographic details
Taluk details
Block details
Block wise Literacy Rate
Educational and other infrastructural facilities
Agro-climatic features
Land details
Irrigation Resources
Soil resources and type
Area, production and productivity of major crops
Farm Gate Price of major crops
Livestock and poultry products production

Geographical Details

The district has an area of 3,564 km². It is bounded on the north by Viluppuram District, on the east by the Bay of Bengal, on the south by Nagapattinam District, and on the west by Perambalur District.

Geographical Position*

North Latitude Between 15° 5’/11° 11’ and 12 ° 35’
East Longitude Between 78 ° 38’ and 80 ° 0’

Total Geographical area : 3678 Sq.km
District Headquarters name : Cuddalore

Demographic details

S. No	Particulars	Value
i)	Population
	Male	11,50,908
	Female	11,34,487
	Total Population	22,85,395
	Rural	15,31,034
	Urban	754361
ii)	Population density / Sq. km	621
iii)	Literates
	Male (%)	81.64
	Female (%)	60.27
	Total (%)	70.95
iv)	Details on SC/ST population
	Male	324633
	Female	321618
	Total Population	646251
	Literacy rate (%)
	Male	58
	Female	42
	Total	50
v)	Labour profile
a)	Total workers	973066
b)	Male workers	636911
c)	Female workers	336155
d)	Rural workers	729741
e)	Urban workers	243325
f)	Cultivators	185873
g)	Agricultural Labourers	449204
h)	Household industry	30457
i)	Other workers	307530
j)	Marginal workers	243302
j)	Non-workers	1312329
vi)	Major languages spoken in the district	Tamil, Telungu, Urudu, English & Kanada
vii)	Details on Birth-Death Rate (per 1000 population)
	Birth Rate	14.5
	Death Rate	4.2
	Infant Mortality Rate	18.6
	Expectation of life in years
	Male	67.7
	Female	66.1

Taluk details

S. No	Name of the taluk	Total area in ha	Taluk HQ
1	Chidambaram	64582	Chidambaram
2	Cuddalore	56645	Cuddalore
3	Kattumannarkoil	48523	Kattumannarkoil
4	Panruti	56097	Panruti
5	Tittakudi	59687	Tittakudi
6	Virudhachalam	82247	Virudhachalam

Block details

S. No	Name of the block	Total area in (in Sq.Km)	Number of Panchayats	Number of Villages	Total Population inclusive of SC / ST population			SC / ST population
					Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
1	Annagramam	169.8	42	55	86757	86041	172798	27627	27606	55233
2	Cuddalore	256.47	51	77	174412	170589	345001	34985	35332	70317
3	Panruti	302.93	42	44	164010	158574	322584	31335	30600	61935
4	Kurinjipadi	398.22	49	71	102419	100094	202513	29253	28781	58034
5	Kammapuram	314.97	53	66	72132	69696	141828	19013	18468	37481
6	Virudhachalam	304.29	51	69	84211	83164	167375	21565	21369	42934
7	Nallur	352.58	64	77	67819	67076	134895	28838	27748	56586
8	Mangalur	447.5	66	85	72579	74079	146658	28753	28900	57653
9	Kattumannarkoil	250.54	55	76	65154	63791	128945	22664	22223	44887
10	Keerapalayam	237.41	63	77	82506	82601	165107	23704	24257	47961
11	Bhuvanagiri	201.37	47	55	53355	52467	105822	17150	16984	34134
12	Parangipettai	228.98	41	57	61332	62173	123505	16669	16706	33375
13	Kumaratchi	212.75	57	89	64222	64142	128364	23077	22644	45721

Block wise Literacy Rate (%)

S. No	Name of the block	Other than SC / ST population			SC / ST population			Total Literacy Rate
		Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
1	Annagramam	69	51	60	58	42	50	64	46	55
2	Cuddalore	73	59	66	56	44	50	65	52	58
3	Panruti	74	55	65	58	42	50	66	49	57
4	Kurinjipadi	68	47	58	59	41	50	63	44	54
5	Kammapuram	70	46	59	51	39	45	61	43	52
6	Virudhachalam	72	52	62	58	42	50	65	47	56
7	Nallur	66	42	54	61	39	50	63	41	52
8	Mangalur	62	39	50	61	39	50	61	39	50
9	Kattumannarkoil	74	57	65	54	42	48	64	49	57
10	Keerapalayam	75	60	68	56	44	50	66	52	59
11	Bhuvanagiri	72	53	63	58	42	50	65	47	56
12	Parangipettai	72	55	63	56	44	50	64	50	57
13	Komaratchi	76	61	68	55	45	50	65	53	59

Educational and other infrastructural facilities

S. No	Particulars	Numbers / Values
1	Educational facilities
a)	Pre-primary	146
b)	Primary	1202
c)	Middle	417
d)	High	146
e)	Higher-Secondary	164
2	Professional colleges
a)	Medical	1
b)	Engineering	5
c)	Agriculture	1
d)	Veterinary / Fisheries
e)	Others (Please specify)
	a) University	1
	b) Education college	34
	C) Polytechnic	8
	d) ITI	13
3	Number of Arts and Science Colleges	9
4	Institutional Credit Facility
a)	Name of the Lead Bank	Indian Bank
b)	Number of branches of lead bank in the district	167
c)	Other Commercial Banks	8
d)	Primary Land Development Bank	6
e)	District Central Co-operative Banks	26
f)	Urban Banks	2
g)	Primary Agricultural Co-operative Credit Society	167
h)	Housing Co-operative Societies	30
i)	Employees Co-operative Societies	77
j)	Weavers Co-operative Society	36
k)	Industrial Co-operative Society	16
l)	Khadi and Village Industries Societies	22
m)	Industrial Co-operative Societies	–
n)	Primary Co-operative Stores	8
o)	Co-operative Sugar mills	1 + 2 private sugar mills
q)	Other Marketing Society (please specify)
5	Agricultural Marketing and Processing
a)	Number of Regulated Markets	10 Nos.
b)	Number of Co-operative Marketing Society
c)	Number of Permanent Markets / Central Markets
d)	Number of weekly markets / shandies
e)	Number of drying yards
f)	Number of storage godowns	6- Agricultural godowns 8- Non agricultural godowns
g)	Number of cold storage units for agricultural produce
h)	Number of agro based / agri-based processing industries
i)	Small scale	7610
ii)	Medium scale	2
iii)	Large scale	14
iv)	Cottage industries	1176

Agro-climatic features

S.No	Particulars	Area in ha	% to the Total geographical area
1	Total geographical area	367781.000
2	Area under Forest	1414.525	0.384
3	Barren and uncultivable land	14646.925	3.982
4	Land put into non-agricultural uses	58572.710	15.925
5	Cultivable waste	5956.495	1.62
6	Permanent pastures and other grazing lands	608.000	0.165
7	Miscellaneous tree crops and grooves not included in the net area sown	17673.030	4.80
8	Current Fallow	39695.674	10.793
9	Other Fallow	14999.251	4.078
10	Net Area Sown	214214.390	58.245
11	Area sown more than once	70781.915
12.	Gross Cropped Area	284996.305

Details on operational holdings

S. No	Classification category	Category area*	Operational area in ha	% to total operational area	Number of holdings	% to total number of holdings
1	Marginal	< 1ha	87455	38.00	242959	78.728
2	Small	1-2 ha	57680	25.06	42142	13.655
3	Small-medium	2-5 ha	47490	20.63	17691	5.732
4	Medium	5-10 ha	29754	12.92	5325	1.725
5	Large	>10 ha	7741	3.363	488	0.158
	Total		230120		308605

Irrigation Resources

S. No	Particulars	Number	Other related particulars
1	Canals
	Government	270	Length in km 1058
	Private	–	Length in km
2	Tanks / ponds
	< 40 ha	188
	=>40 ha	404	–
3	Wells
	Open wells	47084
	Bore wells	784
	Dug cum bore wells	10771
	Tube wells	36156
	Filter point tube wells	–
	Artisan wells	–
4	Other major sources if any 1. Veeranam lake 2. Perumal Lake 3. wellington reservoir 4. Rivers : Gadilam, Pennaiyar & Vellar

Soil resources and type

S. No	Name of the block	Soil type	Major nutrients which are deficient	Micro-nutrients which are deficient
1	Annagramam	Sandy Coastal Alluviam	Nitrogen	Zinc, Boron,
2	Cuddalore	Sandy Coastal Alluviam	Nitrogen	Iron, Manganese
3	Panruti	Red Loam	Nitrogen	Zn, Cu
4	Kurinjipadi	Red Loam	Nitrogen	Zn, Cu
5	Kammapuram	Lateritic Soil	Nitrogen	Zinc, Boron
6	Virudhachalam	Red Loam	Nitrogen	Zinc, Boron
7	Nallur	Sandy clay	Nitrogen	Zinc, cu
8	Mangalur	Sandy clay loam	Nitrogen	Zn, Cu, Mn, Fe
9	Kattumannarkoil	Block soil	Nitrogen	Iron, Zinc
10	Keerapalayam	Sandy Coastal Alluviam	Nitrogen	Fe, Zn, Boron
11	Bhuvanagiri	Sandy Coastal Alluviam	Nitrogen	Fe, Zn, Boron, Molybdenum
12	Parangipettai	Sandy Coastal Alluviam	Nitrogen	Fe, Zn, Boron, Molybdenum
13	Komaratchi	Block soil	Nitrogen	Fe, Zn, Boron, Molybdenum

Area, Production and productivity of major crops cultivated in the district

S. No	Crop	Area (ha)	Production (Mt)	Productivity (Kg /ha)
Cereals
1.	Rice	139986	6.l60 (Rice)	4767
Millets
1.	Sorghum	21	0.001	2013
2.	Cumbu	3491	0.15	3300
3.	Maize	22705	1.55	6981
4.	Varagu	50	0..01	2327
Pulses
1.	Redgram	172	0.01	1256
2.	Blackgram	52400	0.45	1138
3.	Greengram	10800	0.09	1091
Oilseeds
1	Groundnut	9926	0.29	2763
2	Gingelly	3600	0.23	607
Cash crops
1.	Cotton	7211	0.13	659
2.	Sugarcane	24443	28.35	120000
Horticultural crops
Fruits/plantation crops
1.	Cashew nut	32146	178371	552.9
2.	Banana	4250.83	23571.6	97421
3.	Jack	664.91	4930	–
4	Guava	570.405	658.86	403
5	Mango	494.935	4438.09	2277
Vegetables/spices
1.	Brinjal	172.385	16637.73	2542
2.	Chillies	128.170	436.55	45
3.	Bhendi	153.12	8699.58	757
4.	Tapioca	3252.010	29790.82	101408
Flower crops
1.	Rose	35.140	—	—
2.	Jasmine-Gundumalli	143.590	—	—
3.	Jasmine-Mullai	250.315	—	—
4.	Crossandra	43.200	—	—

Production and productivity of livestock, Poultry, Fisheries in the district

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