Fourteen genotypes of diverse origin of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) were analyzed for their yield and various yield contributing characters. Estimates of genetic parameters revealed that phenotypic and genotypic coefficient of variation was high for weight of fruit per plant, average fruit weight, number of locules per fruit, number of branches per plant, plant height, number of fruit per cluster, fruit yield per plot and fruit yield per hectare. Characters fruit yield per hectare (h2 99.80, GA 22.04), plant height (h2 96.50, GA 34.08), number of cluster per plant (h2 96.00, GA 49.61), total soluble solids (h2 92.20, GA 17.05), number of locules per fruit (h2  85.20, GA 47.12), number of branches per plant (h2  84.00, GA 31.04) and weight of fruit per plant (h2  88.70, GA 57.23) showed high heritability (in per cent ) coupled with high genetic advance(as percentage of mean). Correlation co-efficient analysis revealed that fruit yield was positively associated with days to 50% flowering (0.683) and days to 50% fruiting (0.842). Path coefficient analysis revealed that plant height, weight of fruit per plant, days to first fruiting and days to 50% fruiting seem to be the major yield contributing traits in tomato.