Amaranth is a valuable cereal crop with high biodiversity, distribution and productivity. Unlike other commonly utilized cereals, amaranth has high tolerance to arid conditions and poor soils, resistance to drought, pests and ability to adapt to environments that are not conducive to conventional cereals. The crop is underutilized in many parts of the world despite it has all the good attributes mentioned. Although it is known long time ago as a food and medicine in some parts of Ethiopia, it is still an underutilized crop and labelled as an “invasive weed’.