The technology of direct sowing of rice can save the procedures of raising rice seeding, pulling up seeding, and transplanting rice seeding. It is a new culture technique suitable for mechanization operation with labor & cost saved, effort reduced, and productivity & efficiency increased.

“Facile paddy planter” is operated manually with high efficiency and strong flexibility. It is best applied to small range of fields for single users. Moreover, due to its lower price, it is easy acceptable for farmers, and thus it is a promising machine with a good market.

      “Facile paddy planter” is the facility guarantee for promoting the technology of direct sowing of rice. At present, paddy planters applied are generally mobile paddy planters, with higher price and not suitable for small range fields. Farmers are not preferable to this type of machines. These are all not beneficial to the promotion of the technology of direct sowing of rice.

“Facile paddy planter” is operated manually with high efficiency and strong flexibility. It is best applied to small range of fields for single user. Moreover, due to its lower price, it is easy acceptable for farmers. It is a promising machine with good market and also can fill the market blank of this type of paddy planters.

As is known to the farmers, it is the most laborious to transplant rice seeding. On one day, a skilled farmer can only transplant rice seeding for about 0.4-0.5 acres’ fields with two feet in the water. Under this condition, in three days, the feet will fester. However, by using this type of paddy planter, on one day, farmers can transplant rice seeding for 30 acres’ fields, the efficiency of which is enhanced as many as 60 times. Paddy planters not only rescue farmers from the burdensome farm work but also improve work efficiency. The affects are rather obvious as farmers are currently cultivating early rice. As a saying goes: “in Summer we struggles for a day, while, in Spring we struggles for a while”, by using paddy planter to sow early rice, farmers can at least harvest a week in advance, and thus late rice can be sowed earlier, which will definitely increase the productivity.　

Direct sowing of rice mainly improves the way of cultivating the paddy with the purpose of increasing the efficiency in terms of decreasing more labor, more efforts and more investments. The characteristics of this method are made up of ridge forming, ditch towing, seed detaining, putty entering, strong cold resistant, and ventilation, having strong stem, strong lodging resistance and easy cultivation. Compared with the same field, the productivity can be raised by 40 – 80 kilograms per acre.

In contrast with the traditional rice transplanter, “facile paddy planter “adopts the method of controlling row spacing and space between to sow embryo seed. It is easy to operate and suitable for small range of fields. Meanwhile, one machine of this kind just costs several thousand, which is easy accepted and advertised for single user.

   By investigation, experts have found that by using “facile paddy planter” with manpower, people can sow seeds for as many as 15-20 acres. While, with the guide of micro machine, it can sow seeds for as many as 30-40 acres, which can save the cost of raising rice seeding as much as ￥150 , help reach the mature time about ten days earlier, and increase the productivity by 5% per acre.

Adopting the “facile paddy planter” to cultivate paddy saves the procedures of rice seeding rising and rice seeding transplanting. Moreover, it also concentrates on quantity control with the seeding quantity between 1 and 4 kilograms. Furthermore, it also controls row spacing and space between to sow embryo seed. This type of machine has a simple structure, small volume, light weight and easy to operate. Using “facile paddy planter” with manpower, people can sow seeds for as many as 15-20 acres. While, with the guide of micro machine, it can sow seeds for as many as 30-40 acres, which can save the cost of raising rice seeding as much as ￥150 , help reach the mature time about ten days earlier, and increase the productivity by 5% per acre.

Currently, the rural labor force is carrying on the further liberation. It becomes the trend that farmers are more engaged in business and industry areas. Therefore, cost of rural labor force increases quickly, which to a certain extent stimulates the demands for the farm machinery.

As is predicted, the application of new culture technique and relevant farm machinery, which can save labor and efforts, will obtain the wide range promotion. Meanwhile, it is observed that the agricultural production structure is mainly single user and small range of fields. Especially in those mountainous areas and highlands, the lands are separated, which are not suitable for huge farm machineries to work. Furthermore, in many areas, rural economy is backward; the purchasing power is low, and thus it is not easy acceptable by the market due to its higher price. In order to enhance the mechanization of agriculture degree in these areas, the producers must develop some manual facile farm machinery with lower price. Only in this way can farmers afford to buy it and use it.

Therefore, “facile paddy planter” produced mainly aims at single user, the function of which meets the needs of practical requirements, and the price of which is easy acceptable for farmers. In China, the area of cultivating rice is up to more than 28 million Hectare, the largest paddy rice sown area in the world. Among those paddy rice sown areas, Paddy rice's tractor-plowed area occupies 33.45%, and areas with machines for harvest account for 67%. However, areas of using paddy planter account for only 4%. According to the increasing speed of paddy rice mechanization sown area, there will increase 6666 paddy rice planter machinery every year. Hence, the paddy planter has a very huge development space and market potential.

From the international market, by observing Vietnam, Thailand and India with the largest paddy rice production in Southeast Asia; their paddy rice production machinery generally depends on import. These countries are also in great demand of “Facile paddy rice planter machinery”.

                                              轻便型水稻直播机简介 (中文版）

水稻直播技术省去了育秧，拔秧，移栽工序，是一种省工，省力，节约成本，增产增效，适宜机械化操作的新型栽培技术。

“轻便型水稻直播机”，利用手动单人操作，效率高，轻便灵活，适用单户小田块作业，且价格低，农户容易接受，是一种具有较好市场推广前景的机具。

“轻便型水稻直播机”是水稻直播技术推广的设施保证，目前应用的水稻直播机一般为机动直播机不太适合小田块作业，且价格较高，农民接受程度不高，不利于水稻直播技术的推广。

“轻便型水稻直播机”，利用手动单人操作，效率高，轻便灵活，适用单户小田块作业，且价格低，农户容易接受，有较好市场推广前景，并可填补轻便型水稻直播机的这一市场空白。

　 干农活的人都知道，农民插秧是最辛苦的，一个种田好手{yt}可以插四五分地的秧，两只脚泡在水田里，三天下来就烂了。但是使用直播机，{yt}可以播种30亩地，效率提高了近60倍。直播机不只把农民从繁重的体力劳动中解放出来，而且提高了效率。尤其现在农民都在种植早稻，其效用更加明显。都说夏争一日，春争一时，使用直播机播早稻，起码可以提前一个星期收割，晚稻早点下地，产量会有较大提高。

水稻直播主要是改进水稻的种作方式，用以提高功效几十倍的速度来减少农民的“三多”（投工多、投劳多、投资多），其特点是起垄、拖沟、押籽、入泥、耐寒、成线、通风、现阳、壮梗、抗倒、好培育，比同条件的田块每亩增产40－80公斤。　　

与传统插秧机不同，“轻便型水稻直播机”采用控制行距、间距的办法按量播种胚芽稻种，操作方便，而且适合小块农田使用。同时，该机器每台价格仅数千元，适合推广到户。

专家调查发现，“轻便型水稻直播机”人力{yt}可播15至20亩，小型机械牵引可播30至40亩，每亩省育秧插秧成本150元，生育期提前10天左右，每亩增产5%以上。

用“轻便型水稻直播机”种稻，省去了育秧移栽环节。且实行半精量播种，亩播种量能准确控制在1-4公斤之间，等行或等宽窄行栽培。该机械结构简单，体积小，重量轻，易操作。人力牵引{yt}可播15-20亩，小型机械牵引可播30-40亩，劳动强度大幅下降，效率大幅提高。一般亩节省育秧、插秧工成本150元，生育期提前10天左右，亩增产稻谷5%以上。

目前，农村劳动力正进行着进一步的解放，弃农从工、弃农从商成为一种趋势。农村劳动力成本提高较快。这在一定程度上也刺激了对农业机械的需求。

可以预计，省工省力的新型作物栽培技术和相应的农业机械的应用会得到较大范围的推广。同时也应注意到，农业生产结构以单户生产为主，田块较小，特别是在山区和丘陵地带，土地较为分散，不适应大型农业机械作业，而且，许多地方农村经济落后，购买力低，价格较高的农业机械很难被市场接受，要提高这些地区农业机械化程度，只能开发一些手动"轻型"价廉的农业机械，使农民买得起，用得起。

因此，“轻便型水稻直播机”主要针对单户生产，功能上满足实际生产需求，价格上适应农户的购买力，以达到推广的目的。中国水稻种植面积达超过2800万公顷是世界上水稻种植面积最多的国家，其中水稻的机耕面积占3345，机收面积占67%，而水稻机播，机直播，机抛总作业面积只约占4 %，若按每年水稻机械化种植面积增加个百分点可新增6666 台水稻种植机械，因此水稻直播机有很大的发展空间和市场潜力。

从国际市场看越南，泰国，印度等东南亚水稻生产大国的水稻生产机械一般依赖进口，轻便型的水稻种植机械在这些国家也有较大的市场需求。