Yield Attributes and Economics of Machine Transplanted Rice

On farm trials were conducted in five locations for three consecutive years 2009, 2010 and 2011 to assess the performance of Yanji rice transplanter for mechanical transplanting by RASS – Krishi Vigyan Kendra. The field capacity of Yanji rice transplanter was 0.16 ha per hour and time taken to cover one hectare area was 6 hours and 25 minutes. Number of productive tillers per hill-1, panicle length, number of grains panicle-1 and yield were higher in mechanical transplanting than manual transplanting. Mechanical transplanting gave more net returns ha-1 (9334) with less cost of cultivation compared to manual transplanting.