Seed Sowing Machines

manually operated equipment suitable for transplanting of mat type rice seedlings in rows in puddled soils. It consists of floats made of marine plywood, seedling tray, tray indexing mechanism and pickers for planting seedlings. When the operator pulls the machine and operates the handle, the picker, six in number, gathers two or three seedlings and place them in the puddled soil. The row-to-row distance can be maintained at 200 mm. It can cover 0.04-0.05 hah and labour requirement is 40-50 man-hha. It results in 5 to 10% increase in yield. It costs Rs 4,500- and cost of operation is Rs 1250ha as compared to Rs. 3750ha with manual method.