Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2019) 8(12): 2664-2668 2664 Original Research Article https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2019.812.311 Screening of Finger Millet (Eleusine coracana) Varieties for Resistant to Blast (Magnaporthe grisea) Disease in Bastar District, Chhattisgarh, India Prahlad Singh Netam 1 *, Ashwani Kumar Thakur 2 , Prafull Kumar 3 and R. S. Netam 1 1 Department of Plant Pathology, SG College of Agriculture and Research Station, Jagdalpur, 494001 India 2 Department of Agronomy, SG College of Agriculture and Research Station, Jagdalpur, 494001 India 3 Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SG College of Agriculture and Research Station, Jagdalpur, 494001 India *Corresponding author ABSTRACT Introduction Small millets are the traditional crops, agronomically more adapted to less fertile soils. The important small millets grown in India are finger millet, kodo millet, little millet, foxtail millet, barnyard millet and proso millets (Netam et al., 2014). Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) is one of the major staple foods in tribal region of the rural community of Bastar, Chhattisgarh. It is commonly known as bird foot, maida, ragi in different place of India. Finger millet contributes to about 10 percent of the total area (34.6 m ha) planted to millets (Patro et al., 2018). In India, finger millet ranks next to pearl millet and is cultivated on 2.6 m ha area with a production of about 3.0 mt and accounts for 81% of the minor millets produced (Shastri, 1989). A number of The field experiment was conducted during Kharif 2018 at Saheed Gundadhur College of Agriculture and Research Station, Jagdalpur, IGKV, Raipur (CG), to identify the resistant sources for blast disease (Magnaporthe grisea). Result revealed that none of the varieties was found resistant against leaf blast. However, variety GPU 99 (0.0%) was found resistant against neck blast and variety GPU 98 (2.41) and GSMC-1 (1.13) was promising for finger blast resistant. The mean of all location revealed that none of the entries were show resistant for leaf last. The incidence ranged from 9.15 to 23.56, and 7.74 to 18.30 in neck blast and finger blast respectively. Keywords Finger millet, Screening, Blast disease, Resistant, Susceptible Accepted: 20 November 2019 Available Online: 10 December 2019 Article Info International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 12 (2019) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com