Piriyapatna

Piriyapatna ಪಿರಿಯಾಪಟ್ಟಣ
Town
Piriyapatna Location in Karnataka, India
Coordinates:
Country	India
State	Karnataka
District	Mysore
Elevation	844 m (2,769 ft)
Population (2001)
• Total	14,922
Languages
• Official	Kannada
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Vehicle registration	KA-45
Website	[<span%20class="url">.periyapatnatown.gov.in www.periyapatnatown.gov.in%20www<wbr/>.periyapatnatown<wbr/>.gov<wbr/>.in]</span>]

Piriyapatna also called as Piriyapattana is a panchayat town in Mysore district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

Geography

Periyapatna is located at . It has an average elevation of 844 metres (2769 feet). The town is situated on Mysore-Mangalore highway at a distance of 70 km from Mysore, the malnad region will gradually start from Piriyapatna as moved towards Kushalanagara.

There are few good tourist spots near the town; one can also travel towards the Kerala border via Gonikoppal or Siddapura. The major and nearest spot is Bylakuppe (established in 1969), Tibetan refugee settlement, there are ample Tibetan Buddhist monasteries. Bettadapura is another town near, The name of the town is derived from two Kannada words, "Betta" and "pura". Betta means hill/mountain and pura means a town. This town has a big mountain and on the top of it is a temple of shri Sidlu Mallikarjuna Swamy.

Vokkaliga Gowda community forms the highest population of the Taluk and majorly are tobacco cultivators.

Tobacco is cultivated annually or seasonally, and can be harvested in several ways. In the oldest method, the entire plant is harvested at once by cutting off the stalk at the ground with a sickle. In the nineteenth century, bright tobacco began to be harvested by pulling individual leaves off the stalk as they ripened. The leaves ripen from the ground upwards, so a field of tobacco may go through several so-called "pullings", more commonly known as topping (topping always refers to the removal of the tobacco flower before the leaves are systematically removed and, eventually, entirely harvested). As the industrial revolution took hold, harvesting wagons used to transport leaves were equipped with man-powered stringers, an apparatus which used twine to attach leaves to a pole. In modern times large fields are harvested by a single piece of farm equipment, although topping the flower and in some cases the plucking of immature leaves is still done by hand.

Demographics

As of 2001 India census, Piriyapatna had a population of 14,922. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Piriyapatna has an average literacy rate of 67%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 72%, and female literacy is 61%. In Piriyapatna, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.