Coconut as a perennial crop, one of the tropical plantations, having high economic value. Owing to the natural factor endowments, agro climatic conditions and perennial ability, the coconut is cultivated at large scale in different parts of the country particularly, coastal areas. The planting of the crop has taken up round the year on the farming systems viz., gardens and homestead. Coimbatore, Thanjavur, Tirupur, Dindugul and Kannyakumari are the major Districts for coconut cultivation in Tamil Nadu. In recent years, Krishnagiri district farmers also giving significant place for cultivating coconut. Though the coconut palm takes two to seven years for germination its sustainable period can be extended from 60 to 100 years. Coconut farming seems to be less labour absorption but absorbs a large section of working force via their backward linkages. The prime raw material for coir industries are coconut fiber. The coir and their related ancillary units give gainful employment opportunities to the rual areas (Rajendran and Gandhimathy 2012, 2011a&b). Coconut fiber extraction industries provide basic raw material for the industries like rope making, threats, air cooler, window curtains, bags, mats, carpets, furniture, bricks, construction works, copra processing, oil crushing and coconut husks handicrafts. Besides this, while transporting these items from the stage of raw materials – semi-finished – finished – value addition – Wholesale - retail - final consumer – second sales – repairing and so on, the workers engaged in this sector are larger and generates employment opportunities. Via exporting the value added coconut items, considerable foreign exchanges are earned. Every part of the coconut is valuable. The leaf stalk, sapthe are not only used for firing, but alos roofing the huts. Palm logs are used for roofing the huts. Pith of the palms (Thennai Soru) is eatable, tasty and healthy one. It is also possible to transplant the coconut palms with the help of buldozers. The tender leaves of palms takes three months to shoot forth in bunches. Starting from traditional culture, the tender leaves, stalks, pith are used. Strips (Keetru) are used for both marriage and death ceremonies. In this context also, the coconuts have high potential, social and cultural value. This paper is divided into five sections. Section one gives the introduction, section two relates earlier studies, section three explores the objectives, section four studies analysis and last section gives the conclusion.