The present study was conducted at Research cum Instructional Farm, . College of Agriculture and Research Station, Kumhrawand, Jagdalpur, Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India. One hundred and four rice genotypes lines were planted in three rows in two replication with four checks viz.,MTU 1010, Karma Masuri, Dub- raj Selection and HMTin Randomized Complete Block Design. Agro-morphological characters Plant height, Flag leaf length, Flag leaf width, Panicle length, grain yield per plant, number of panicles, Test weight, Days to 50% flowering, Days to harvesting days, Root length, Shoot length, Days to maturity, genotypes lines were found promising with respect to yield. One hundred and four rice germplasm lines were grouped into five clusters out of five clusters the cluster III constituted of 33 genotypes, forming the largest cluster. The estimates of heritability in broad sense andgenetic advance as percentage of mean were found high for trait gel per plant was highly significantly and positively correlated with grain breadth, Volume expansion ratio, grain length breadth ratio, kernel breadth, days to maturity while significant negative correlated with days to 50% flowering and Shoot length. | Variability studies in local rice genotypes using agro-morphological characterization
