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Hightlights
Erode District is an important market center for Turmeric, a spice commonly used in curries. Turmeric is also used as a fabric dye. This turmeric is collected from Erode District and also from adjoining districts of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, including Mysore. Other specialties include Uthukuli butter and Kangayam bulls.
Erode is well known for hand-loom, power-loom textile products and ready-made garments and hence it is called Powerloom City of India. Products such as cotton sarees, bed spreads, carpers, lungies, printed fabrics, towels, dhotis are marketed here in bulk.
Erode District predominantly agrarian in nature, is emerging gradually but steadily as an Industrially Promising District. Erode was previously a part of Coimbatore District and it has been bifurcated from Coimbatore District on 17th September 1979 as a new district. Erode is known for the biggest textile shandy for marketing the powerloom and handloom products. Erode District consists of 5 Taluks [sub-district] viz., Erode, Bhavani, Gobichettipalayam, Perundurai and Sathyamangalam.
There are 4 Municipalities in the Erode District viz.,
- Gobichettipalayam
- Bhavani
- Punjai Puliampatti and
- Sathyamangalam.
The district is generally characterized with scanty rainfall and a dry climate. Maximum rainfall is recorded in Gobichettipalayam and Bhavani Taluks. The soils of the district are mostly red sand and gravel with moderate amounts of red-loam and occasional black loam tracts. Though the district cannot boost of great mineral wealth, it has a few varied items of significance. Both opaque and translucent varieties of fine quality of Feldspar is found abundantly in Erode Taluk.
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