Agriculture
Utilization of land area in Karur district is up to 44.59%. 4.76% of the land area remains as other uncultivated land. 2.74% is forest area in Karur district.
Black soil is the predominant soil type in this district accounting for 35.51% followed by lateritic soil for 23.85%. The remaining 20.31% is alluvium soil.
The main crops are Paddy, Banana, Sugarcane, Beetle leaf, Grams & Pulses, Tapioca, Kora grass, Groundnuts, Oil seeds, Tropic-Vegetables, Garland Flowers, Medicinal Herbals etc.
Home textiles
Karur is famous for its home textiles. Karur has a niche in five major product groups — bed linens, kitchen linens, toilet linens, table linens and wall hangings. Overall Karur generates around Rs.6000 crores ($300 million dollars a year) in foreign exchange through direct and indirect exports. Allied industries like ginning and spinning mills, dyeing factories, weaving etc. employs around 300,000 people in and around Karur.
On the international textile map Karur has become synonymous with hand-loom “made-ups” like Tirupur is known for the hosiery product. Hand-loom Exports from Karur began on a modest scale with just 15 exporters in 1975 and today Karur has thousands of exporters and the products are supplied to world leading chain stores.
Karur textile Park Ltd(KTPL)
Set up under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks, the Rs. 130 crore sophisticated project christened Karur Textile Park Limited (KTPL) is rated the premier facility of its kind anywhere in the country for its technical and ancillary facilities in a united complex spread over 110 acres in Thalapatti and Puthambur villages, about 12 km from here off the Karur-Madurai highway NH7. An executive administration block, a
