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Abstract
The experiment was conducted to study the performance of Kukje self-propelled rice transplanter and to study the
economic feasibility of mechanical transplanting method over manual transplanting method. Each of the transplanting
method had three unit plots of sized 20 m x 10 m. The field efficiency and planting efficiency of the transplanter were
83.33% and 95%, respectively. Percent damaged (3.33%) and missing (5.33%) hills were higher in mechanical
transplanting method and percent floating (4.33%) hill was higher in case of manual transplanting method. The
average labor input in mechanical transplanting was 1.4 man-day/ha where 25 man-day/ha was in case of manual
transplanting. The total production costs were 53612 tk/ha and 49304 tk/ha for manual transplanting and mechanical
transplanting methods, respectively. Crop established with mechanical transplanting method resulted in higher
average grain yield of 6.66 t/ha than manual transplanting method resulted average grain yield of 5.83 t/ha. The net
return of manual and mechanical transplanting method were 42310 and 61080 tk/ha, respectively. The benefit cost
ratios (BCR) were 2.24 and 1.78 for mechanical transplanting method and manual transplanting method, respectively.
Kukje self-propelled rice transplanter should have break-even area coverage more than 10 ha/yr for economic
transplanting. The above result showed that the mechanical transplanting method is more economic than the manual
transplanting method