Sendakkottai

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Sendakkottai
village
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State Tamil Nadu
District Thanjavur
Taluk Pattukkottai
Population
 (2001)
  Total2,116
Languages
  Official Tamil
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)

Sendakkottai is a village in the Pattukkottai taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India.

Thanjavur district District in Tamil Nadu, India

Thanjavur District is one of the 37 districts of the state of Tamil Nadu, in southeastern India. Its headquarters is Thanjavur. The district is located in the delta of the Cauvery River and is mostly agrarian. As of 2011, Thanjavur district had a population of 2,405,890 with a sex-ratio of 1,035 females for every 1,000 males.

Tamil Nadu State in Southern India

Tamil Nadu, is one of the 29 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian subcontinent and is bordered by the union territory of Puducherry and the South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. It is bounded by the Eastern Ghats on the north, by the Nilgiri Mountains, the Meghamalai Hills, and Kerala on the west, by the Bay of Bengal in the east, by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait on the southeast, and by the Indian Ocean on the south. The state shares a maritime border with the nation of Sri Lanka.

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Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Sendakkottai had a total population of 2116 with 1014 males and 1102 females. The sex ratio was 1087.[ clarification needed ] The literacy rate was 74.89.[ clarification needed ]

Economy

Rice, banana, gingelly, sugarcane, groundnuts and coconuts are exported to other states in India. People surrounding Sendakkottai also cultivate crops such as cocoa, corn, sunflower. Some farmers who feel to lazy to work in their fields convert cultivation into coconut plantations, and because of this activity there is a hike in the price of rice and edible crops. This region always has had sugarcane cultivation as it yields more profit and the area has abundant underground water. The village yields a large volume of cow and buffalo milk that is distributed to other villages. However, most of the people in this area buy packaged milk due to lack of pastoral land and people have given up grazing cows. At the start of the summer when all the lakes dry up there are sales of fresh fishes and crabs. During the summer temperature rises up to 45 degrees Celsius, and to bear it, most of the houses are ceiled with woven coconut leaf. The elderly are involved in weaving this coconut.

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