Vegetables are the cheapest source of natural nutrients. To achieve true nutritional selfsufficiency, the production of vegetables in India must be doubled by 2050. This can be achieved through better cultivation practices. In India most of the vegetable crops are transplanted by traditional manual method; which is a tiresome and labour consuming process. Thus mechanization of vegetable transplanting is an immediate need. On the way of mechanization lies the marginal land holdings and poor socio- economic status of farmers. However the substantial bullock population paved way for developing a one row semi-automatic bullock drawn vegetable transplanter. The developed transplanter consisted of a furrow opener, a seedling drop tube, a pair of press wheels and a tray type seed metering mechanism. | Development and evaluation of a bullock drawn vegetable transplanter