ANON farm equipment manual 8 rows rice seeder paddy drum seeder

ANON  farm equipment manual 8 rows rice seeder paddy drum seeder

Direct paddy seeder is one of the revolutionary equipments that changed the face of sowing paddy seeds in wetland field.

Direct paddy drum seeder has eliminated the need of transplantation and hours of manual work which will literally break the back of the farmers involved in sowing the paddy seeds to the field. At one stretch with single operator effort, it covers 8 rows of 20 cm row to row spacing at a time. Made up of plastic material, which makes it easy.

Field Preparation

• Field must be well puddled and leveled.
• Wate must be drained out atleast 24 hrs before sowing to form    hardslurry  pan of puddle soil.
• At the time of sowing, only paper thin of water should be  maintained in the puddled field.
• Water should be flooded to the  puddled field once in  three days after sowing  and drained out immediately.
• This practice must be continued for 12 days. Thereafter depending upon the height of the seeding, Water should be allowed to stand in the field.

Operation procedure

• After assembling, fill the drums with pre-germinated seeds. Remember only two-third of the drum are to be filled at a time.
• Close the mouth with the knob provided.
• Pull the seeder manually at a normal walking speed (1 Km/h) in the backward position as in the photo.
• The wheel  impression in the first pass will server as a maker.
• In the second pass the wheel should pass on the same wheel impression of the previous pass to maintain the row-to-row spacing of 20 cm.
• Occasionally watch the dropping of the seeds  through the holes of the seeder .
• Refill the drum when it reaches  one fourth capacity.
• Continue the seeding operation.

Specification of direct paddy seeder

Detail of direct paddy seeder