
Riding Type
Riding transplanter is power driven and can usually transplant six lines in one pass.
Walking Type
Walking transplanter is manually driven and can usually transplant four lines in one pass.

Rice is a cash crop that feeds millions of people around the world, in Kenya, rice demand exceeds production and the gap between production and consumption is filled through imports to meet the domestic demand at a huge cost.
It is for this reason that the Government has continued to support research on improvement of variety techniques and provision of farmers’ incentives to boost production
Farmers have for the longest time planted rice by evenly spreading the rice in the farm manually, in cases of large scale farming it has proven to be a challenge because it is often tiresome and consumes a lot of time. However, embracing machine planting can make work easier.
Machine planting means establishing young rice seedlings into puddled soil by a machine.
How does it work?
There are two types of rice transplanter i.e., riding type and walking type
Riding transplanter is power driven and can usually transplant six lines in one pass.
Walking Type
Walking transplanter is manually driven and can usually transplant four lines in one pass.
A transplanter consists of;
How to transplant rice by machine
Advantages of rice transplanter
The rice planting machine has been designed and fabricated in order to deliver on:
Though the Rice Transplanter is an effective farming machine it can do so much without human intervention thus the rice farmer needs to take into consideration the following while using this machine: