Abstract

                                Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L) Gaertn) plays a vital role in providing quality nutrition to human of South Asia and Africa. Many kinds of traditional and processed foods are produced from finger millet. It is one of the important small millets, which is very well adapted to marginal lands, hilly regions and shallow soils. In any breeding programme, selection based on the knowledge and direction of association between different yield attributes and yield is very useful. The present investigation was undertaken to determine the associations between yield and yield components in hybrids and parents of finger millet.

Key words : Finger millet, inter trait association