Cherukupalle

Cherukupalli
—  village  —
Coordinates
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District(s)	Guntur
Subdistrict(s)	Cherukupalli
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Codes • Pincode • 522309 • Telephone • [phone]

Cherukupalli is a village and a mandal in Guntur district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.^[1] It is growing rapidly.

Cherukupalli and Gullapalli are twin villages, separated by a canal which is primary source of irrigation from Krishna river water. Cherukupalli has 6(2 in cherukupalli, 4 in Gullapalli) hospitals. A farmers' market is held here on Thursday(in Gullapalli) and Saturday(in Cherukupalli). There are temples dedicated to Lord Shiva, Venkateswara Swamy, and others. Agriculture is the primary occupation in the area, with paddy as kharif crop and black gram (Ground nut in some sandy areas) as rabi crop. Sometimes, as per requirement, government directs to grow paddy in rabi season also. Around 2006 there was a virus attack on Black gram crop, continued the following year and to suppress it, they used crop change and grew maize for one session and faced problems due to lack of experience and dependence on canal irrigation for water.

Cherukupalli has number of schools, 3 intermediate colleges, and 1 degree college(SMPA Degree college), MBA College and Engineering college in Kanagala which is 6 km away. Bapatla is 25km away from Cherukupalli which is education hub which got Engineering college, Pharmacy college, Degree college(Arts and sciences) running under Bapatla Education Society and there are many intermediate colleges and schools. Tenali is 25 km away from Cherukupalli.

There are ten rice mills in the Mandal. There are 4(3 active) cinema theaters with 2(2 active) in Cherukupalli and 2(1 active) in Gullapalli.

Recently cherukupalli turned as a great panchayathi.

References

1. ^ "List of Sub-Districts". Census of India. http://www.censusindia.gov.in/. Retrieved 2007-04-27.