Major crops grown here are Paddy,[14][15] Coffee, Rubber, Pepper, Cardamom, Coorg Oranges and Honey production.

The current MP for this constituency is Shri Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, from the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The Codava National Council and Kodava Rashtriya Samiti are campaigning for autonomy to Kodagu district which would have made Coorg more prosperous and independent.

[23] The earliest mention about Coorg can be seen in the works those date back to Sangam period (300 BCE - 300 CE).

The Ezhimala dynasty had jurisdiction over two Nadus - The coastal Poozhinadu and the hilly eastern Karkanadu.

[24] According to the works of Sangam literature, Poozhinadu consisted much of the coastal belt between Mangalore and Kozhikode.

[30] British rule led to the establishment of educational institutions, introduction of scientific coffee cultivation, better administration and improvement of the economy.

[31][32][33] This reference notwithstanding - we should remember that the colonial rule by the British in India was about exploitation of resources and Kodagu provided a lot of scope for economic benefits to a colonising empire.

According to the 2011 census of India, Kodagu has a population of 554,519,[2] roughly equal to the Solomon Islands[35] or the US state of Wyoming.

A huge minority of Muslims dot the Coorg district, especially the towns of Kushalnagar, Virajpet and Mercara.

A sizeable of them are the Nawayaths who shifted in the eighties from Bhatkal and Murdeshwar in order to pursue coffee & arecanut plantations and textile business.

[quantify] They are mostly descended from those Konkani Catholics who fled the roundup and, later, captivity by Tippu Sultan.

Kodava Language uses the Official Script Invented by Dr IM Muthanna in 1970.

[41] Less frequent are Tulu speakers Billavas, Mogaveeras, Bunts, Goud Saraswat Brahmins.

They live in Sulya (in Dakshina Kannada) and in parts of Somwarpet, Kushalanagar, Bhagamandala and Madikeri.

Guddemane Appaiah Gowda along with many other freedom fighters from different communities revolted against the British in an armed struggle which covered entire Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada.