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Tapioca is one of the most important tropical root crops. At present, the sago and starch industries are meeting about 80 per cent demand of the tapioca food products of the country and have generated employment for over 5 lakh persons in rural India. In fact, this industry can be considered as the back bone of the rural economy in Tamil Nadu. To achieve the growing demands of increasing population in our country, the tapioca production will have to be raised. Most of the tapioca growers are still practising primitive technologies. Considering the significance of Tapioca cultivation, an attempt is made to design training programmes for tapioca growers to increase the production and productivity of tapioca. The study was taken up in the tapioca predominant districts of Salem, Dharmapuri, Namakkal and Villupuram in Tamil Nadu state with a sample size of three hundred growers selected based on random sampling. Majority of the respondents preferred training before cropping season in their own village for a period of two-day duration. The respondents preferred training once in a year and liked to have peripatetic type of training. They preferred full day training through method of demonstration mode.