Krishnapuram | |
Native Name: | Krishnapuram, Rajapalayam |
Native Name Lang: | ta |
Other Name: | Krishnapuram (OP) |
Settlement Type: | village |
Pushpin Map: | India Tamil Nadu#India |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Tamil Nadu, India |
Coordinates: | 9.4256°N 77.5072°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | India |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Tamil Nadu |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Virudhunagar |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Languages |
Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
Demographics1 Info1: | Tamil |
Timezone1: | IST |
Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
Postal Code Type: | PIN |
Postal Code: | 626143 |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Nearest city |
Blank1 Info Sec1: | Rajapalayam |
Blank2 Name Sec1: | Lok Sabha constituency |
Blank2 Info Sec1: | Tenkasi |
Blank3 Name Sec1: | Vidhan Sabha constituency |
Blank3 Info Sec1: | Rajapalayam |
Krishnapuram is a village in the Virudhunagar district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is located on Kollam-Tirumangalam Road National Highways 744 and is about 7 km from Rajapalayam.
Agriculture is the main occupation of the Krishnapuram people. Krishnapuram is bounded by farmlands and crop fields in all directions. Most of the farming includes coconut, paddy rice, mango, sugarcane, cotton, millet, root and tuber crops, maize, cucumber, pumpkin, and numerous fresh vegetables. There are no mango farms in Krishnapuram. Most of the farms are seen on the outskirts of the village and in the nearby Ayyanar Koil Forest Area or Western Ghats. As mango farming is a seasonal one, most of the village farmers are busy cultivating mango during the summer season. And the ripened mangoes are quite famous around the Krishnapuram locales.
Most of the irrigation processes are carried out in traditional ways. The sources of irrigation water are mostly wells, and in some cases, surface water is being pumped into the farmlands.
Krishnapuram comes under Rajapalayam (State Assembly Constituency) and Tenkasi (Lok Sabha constituency) which is incumbent by Thanga Pandiyan (DMK) and Dhanush M. Kumar (DMK) respectively.[1]