Veppankulam

Veppankulam VPM
village
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Thanjavur
Taluk	Pattukkottai
Government
• Panchayat President	ramathash
Population  (2001)
• Total	1,474
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)

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

Demographics

The dominant community of the Tamil Kshatriya martial race is a village inhabited by a large number of Kshatriya warrior group Thevar Community people, who are also collectively known as Mukkulathor or Thevar people. As per the 2001 census, Veppankulam had a total population of 1474 with 679 males and 795 females. The sex ratio was 1.171. The literacy rate was 84.89. Veppankulam Coconut Research Station is the largest in the state, having 97 acres (390,000 m²) of land with coconut varieties ECT, WCT, Yellow, Green, Jafna, etc., VHC1 & VHC2 are the new varieties cross-produced by a team of professors in this station. VHC stands for Veppankulam Hybrid Coconut. This station is coconut research arm of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore.

Mariyamman Temple, located in south of this village is a famous temple in surrounding area. This temple is further beautified by a small pond called Poongulam.

References

• "Primary Census Abstract - Census 2001". Directorate of Census Operations-Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original on 6 August 2009.