Location

Vattamkulam is a village in Malappuram district of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

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India

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Vattamkulam is located near Edappal. A village in the fertile valley of the Bharatapuzha River, also known as the Nila River.

"Vattamkulam" literally means "Round Pond"

History

It was a sleepy farming village until the 1970s, but during the Gulf Fever in Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 it sent most of its able bodied men to the Gulf countries, and now almost every family has one or more men earning in the Gulf.

Places of interest

Some interesting places in Vattamkulam panchayath are,

• Punch Nagar
• Chekanoor,
• edappal jn,
• neeliyad,
• Pottur,
• sukapuram
• naduvattom
• kuttippala
• palapra
• AKG Mini stadium

¤ 'Manndthodth' football ground ( place where legends like Shameer , cousin of the famous blogger Musi Mk ., started his play )

• vattakkulam is also an important place which means 'round Pond'.

The beautiful beach at Ponnani

Ponnani

Ponnani/Ponani is an ancient port, a coastal town and a municipality in Malappuram district in the Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of 9.32 km2. Ponnani taluk is the smallest Taluk in Malappuram district. This tiny, picturesque town is bounded by the Arabian Sea on the west...

 is situated about 12 km away from Vattamkulam.

Vattamkulam is now a model village for cleanliness

1. PUNCH nagar-

PunchNagar is a place Near Vattamkulam punchayath. PunchNagar doesnt have great graphics.Here the main attraction is the unity and integrity of people.

Commercial

Recently formed factory "Nellara" is a food processing firm at Vattamkulam which exports to Gulf countries.

In 2006, IHRD established a science college known as College of Applied Science. It provides B.Sc degrees in Electronics and Computer Science. It is situated at Edappal, 2 km away from Vattamkulam.

A Ham Radio Station operates from Vattamkulam http://www.qrz.com/detail/vu2ekj to serve any Emergency Communication services.

Edapal Hospitals Pvt Ltd is also located in this panchayah which is famous in all over India for infertility treatment.

IQSoft Software Consultants, a web design and custom software development company has its offices in vattamkulam from 2002.

Roasters Foods Industry was established in 2002 which manufactures Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 ethnic foods like banana chips

Banana chips

Banana chips are deep-fried and/or dried slices of bananas . They can be covered with sugar or honey and have a sweet taste, or they can be fried in oil and spices and have a salty and/or spicy taste. Variants of banana chips may be covered with chocolate instead...

, tapioca chips, jack fruit chips, mixtures etc.This industry situated in Pottur, near Edappal exports processed foods to Middle East.
Potturkavu Ayyappa temple celebrates Pooram on Makaram 10

Festivals and religion

Kulamkara pooram is a famous festival here which attracts people from all over the world. In 2009 december there were people from as far away as Germany.

Very near to Potturkavu, Eringikkal pattu mahotsavam celebrates during Malayalam month Meenam. Bhagawati Pattu.

Kundurummal Masjid is a few centuries old and has tombstones dating back to the British Raj. It has a Madrasa with dozens of students from all over Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

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Landscape and Agriculture

'Vattamkulam' Panchayath is blessed with so much of natural beauty because of its varied natural greenish forest lands and agricultural fields. The main agriculture area of the people is with rice(paddy) production and the commercial crops like arecanut , pepper , banana etc. There are so many agricultural communities also in this 'Vattamkulam' panchayath and majority of them are initiated by local governing bodies itself.
In the previous years this panchayath witnessed a tremendous growth in the agricultural production.

In case of Landscape, Vattamkulam Panchayath is blessed with a number of hills and mountains.A large number of local visitors are coming to the various hill tops for sightseeing and all. By that way Vattamkulam has a great scope awaiting in future in the form of tourism.
But now the situation is slightly changing now. A number of hills are on the verge of extinction as because of the greed mind of people for money. They are converting each bit of cultivating land especially the paddy fields into bare lands into the hands of Land Mafia. Now if the situation is going to persist like this, the beautiful Vattamkulam area will take no time to change into a place of bare land.