Panniyoor

Panniyoor
Panniyoor
village
	Panniyoor Location in Kerala, India Panniyoor Panniyoor (India)
	Coordinates: 12°05′59″N 75°24′12″E / 12.099780°N 75.403430°E
Country	India
State	Kerala
District	Kannur
Area
• Total	24.54 km2 (9.47 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	12,383
• Density	500/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Malayalam, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	670142
ISO 3166 code	IN-KL
Vehicle registration	KL-59

Panniyoor is a village in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala.^[1]

Demographics

As of 2011 Census, Panniyoor had a population of 12,382 with 5,932 (47.9%) males and 6,450 (52.1%) females. Panniyoor village spreads over an area of 24.54 km² (9.47 sq mi) with 2,673 families residing in it. The male female sex ratio was 1,087 higher than state average of 1,084. In Panniyoor, 11% of the population were under 6 years age. Panniyoor had overall literacy of 91.8% lower than state average of 94%.^[2]

Pepper Research Station

Panniyoor has become famous because the prestigious pepper reserearch station of Kerala Agricultural University is located there. The station has developed a high yield hybrid pepper variety called Panniyoor One.^[3]

Transportation

The national highway passes through Taliparamba town. Goa and Mumbai can be accessed on the northern side and Cochin and Thiruvananthapuram can be accessed on the southern side. Taliparamba has a good bus station and buses are easily available to all parts of Kannur district. The road to the east of Iritty connects to Mysore and Bangalore but buses to these cities are available only from Kannur, 22 km to the south. The nearest railway stations are Kannapuram and Kannur on Mangalore-Palakkad line. Trains are available to almost all parts of India. There are airports at Kannur, Mangalore and Calicut. All of them are small international airports with direct flights available only to Middle Eastern countries.

References

^ "Census of India : Villages with population 5000 & above". Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
^ Kerala, Directorate of Census Operations. District Census Handbook, Kannur (PDF). Thiruvananthapuram: Directorate of Census Operations, Kerala. p. 154,155. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
^ "Pepper Research Station, Panniyur | Kerala Agricultural University". www.kau.in. Retrieved 6 June 2021.