The potential role of NTFPs in providing nutrition, health and alleviation of poverty in the livelihoods of the forest communities in greater parts of the world is an established fact. A detailed field survey of NTFPs used by the ethnic people in Paderu Forest Division in Eastern Ghats, Alluri Sitarama Raju district, Andhra Pradesh, conducted it resulted in enlisting 38 economically important products and how they contribute to the tribal household economy through oral interviews, group discussions, direct observation from forest dwellers, and from those who do marketing in the local weekly markets (shandies). For the first time, the empirical analysis of ethnic data that was collected through informal questionnaires was done using the analytical tool SPSS and the results are presented to suggest sustainable use of NTFPs on the one hand and their conservations on the other on mutual basis.