Sugarcane is the leading commercial crop, while food crops include ragi, coconut and potato.
Schemes to prevent cutting down and burning trees and growing finger millet, and to restrict the numbers of cattle owned had begun in that region in 1938, but from 1947 they were increasingly enforced through fines.
Koozh is made from Kezhvaragu or Cumbu flour and broken rice (called noyee in Tamil) in a mud pot.