Our family have a number of rai which are seeded by machine these days.  There are some places where the seed did not take and so now we are planting by hand bent over and that is slow and painful.  Is there a tool on a long handle that would make a small hole and then release a seed or two into the hole which would be scuffed over as the person moved along.  Something like a long handled narrow trowel with a container holding seeds (like a 1.5 litre water bottle) and with a tube going down to be beside where the hole has been made.  A small spring release would allow one or two seeds out at a time.   Anything like this exist or any ideas how I could make one?  The seed release part and tube would be the key I would have thought as the tool and the handle are readily available already.  Thanks in advance for any information or ideas.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/manual-hand-seed-planters_1461732155.html

 

Something like this.

I think if your soil is wet just soak your seed for a few days and throw on the surface,a lot easier and no bending over.

 I think you'll get sick of cleaning sticky mud off the bottom of this tool after five minutes.

Thanks for comments.  I am going to put a length of steel pipe over the hollow tube handle of a smallish digging tool.  Don't know what these are called.  Sort of like a garden trowel with a square nose stuck onto a handle.  Common tool here. This will give it weight to go deep enough and I will drop seed down the tube and just scuff the dirt over.  Small funnel at the top too.   

Hello All, Ther was a thread I beleave in the OG section

at the top of the farming forum page, about rice weeders

and I do believe that that the drum rice seeder was also

covered.

Drum rice seeders do multi rows and space the rows for

use of the push row weeder.

I have seen both items for sale in Thai Ag Magazines, I 

ECCO of something like that in CM was also selling them.

I don't know if the uTube link will work or not, but if you

go to uTube and enter "rice seeder" you'll get several vids

of the planters in use, very popular in India, Thai's don't

like change.

5 rows as fast as you can walk, put the wheel in the in the

old track and head back to the other end and keep your

row spacing.

rice555

DRUM SEEDER ASSLY - Duration- 9-34. MAGNIFICENT ENGINEERS 73,216 views.webloc

That was ECHO in CM.

rice555

Two other way, one person in the village used a machine to plant,

all the others just broadcasted the seed by hand.

rice555

Thanks for the replies everybody.

So are we talking about a planter or a seeder?

Over the years up here, some of the more adventurous farmers tried planting seed with a regular planter. Everyone of them is back to the old way of transplanting. Apparently they have decided that transplanting for the increased yield is worth the extra labor.

Hi guys. Using a tractor for ploughing ect ,contract harvester. All other work done yourselves so as to not pay wages. Can you please give me an average profit per rai of rice. Thanks

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