| Manual transplanting of rice seedlings in puddling condition is a common method of crop establishment in the irrigated rice systems of Asia though it is time consuming. Rice transplanters are outmost need to overcome the labor crisis in the peak transplanting periods. But, self-propelled transplanter requires an ideal field conditions to obtain better performance. Hence, a self-propelled rice transplanter (Model: DP480 and S3-680) was evaluated in clay loam (CLS), loam (LS) and sandy loam soil (SLS) during the irrigated dry season (Boro) of 2012-13 and 2013-14 under three inundation periods of 12, 18 and 24 hrs and three tillage options as strip tillage (ST), zero tillage (ZT) and conventional tillage (CT) to identify a suitable inundation period and... |
