Amaranthus sp. are the most popular leafy vegetable in Tamil Nadu and the another species Amaranthus caudatus L., are grown exclusively for grain purpose because of its nutritional quality. This not only improves the status of farm women and also improves their family nutritional quality also. Fifty tribal people participated from the village of old Sarkarpathi, Pollachi. In this training, explained the cultivation practices of grain amaranth, hands on experience for different value added products like laddu, amaranth grain pori, porridge to tribal women, displayed different byproducts which are available in market and also gave different minor millets seeds pockets, tree seedlings to the participants. All the demonstration plots established at the project were harvested and utilized by the tribal farmers. From the post evaluation survey, they indicated that their final choice would be based on the marketing facility of value added products of grain amaranth and there is a need for developing an appropriate strategy to make the seeds available to farmers.
