Drought is the most limiting abiotic stress in finger millet production. Very little has been done to explore resistance in the crop. Finger millet is reported to have special mechanisms for drought resistance which some varieties possess. Drought tolerant lines will yield relatively well when water is scarce but do not lose the ability to yield well in good seasons. A number of agronomic traits; seedling vigor, days to flowering (DAF), plant height, umber of productive tillers, amount of chaff (threshability) and grain yield have been used to assess drought tolerance in finger millet.