women say that among all the little millet landraces kottapattisamai is the most beautiful as stated in a local language tamil samaikku azhaku kottapattisamai and prefer this landrace due to ease in processing productivity meal quality and adaptation to diverse agroecosystems women rate the landraces according to meal quality and taste also women classify little millet landraces based on bran to edible portion ratio and prefer landraces that are lower in bran proportion