Nathakkadaiyur

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As of 2005 India census,[2] Nathakadaiyur had a population of 38,862. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Nathakadaiyur has an average literacy rate of 73%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 80%, and female literacy is 66%. In Nathakadaiyur, 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Nathakadaiyur is a vibrant town with lot of commercial activities. It is located to very close Industrial towns such as Tirupur, famous for its apparel exports, Erode, a major agricultural trading & textile promoting town, Karur, famous for its textile production and Coimbatore, a vibrant city known for its machinery exports.

The four major industries in the Nathakadaiyur are rice production, coconut copra production, coconut oil production and ghee production. Nathakadaiyur also owns it value for precious stones in the world arena. Though the region is semi arid and rain fed, it is very suitable for rice production with its round the year warm weather and optimum humidity. Most of the rice produced here are boiled rice marketed in the nearby cities like Coimbatore, Erode, Tirupur and also exported to North America and Europe.

Nathakadaiyur started emerging as a major trading centre in the '80s with the spread of coconut cultivation in Tamil Nadu. There are a few hundred oil mills in the area, which almost serves the need of the state and exports to the neghiboring states. The bulk of the coconut oil trade at Kangeyam goes to states like Maharashtra, Andhrapradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh.