Rice transplanter

This is because rice can be grown without transplanting, by simply sowing seeds on field, and farmers outside Asia prefer this fuss-free way at the expense of reduced yield.

It increases the approximate area that a person can plant from 700 to 10,000 square metres per day.

However, rice transplanters are considerably expensive for almost all Asian small-hold farmers.

Rice transplanters are popular in industrialized countries where labor cost is high, for example in South Korea.

They are now also becoming more popular in South Asian countries because, at transplanting time, labor shortage is at peak levels.