Rice is the staple food for Telangana, requires about 50 lakh tons annually to feed the population. Rice is being cultivated both in kharif and rabi season as one of the most important crop in Telangana. During the year, 2016-17 rice crop was grown in an area of about lakh hectares and produced lakh tons of rice with the productivity of 3902 kg/ha. Comparing the productivity of rice over other states, Telangana was in first place by crossing the leading states like Punjab, Haryana, Tamilnadu and AP imported selfpropelled transplanters have been using Telangana state for paddy transplanting to overcome the problem of labour scarcity during peak season of sowing. The field experiments were conducted in the farmer’s fields in a total area of 60 ha during Kharif and Rabi 2017-18 in different villages of Telangana State with RNR -15048 and KNM-118 varieties in sandy clay loam soil to ascertain the performance of popular Kubota and Yanmarmodel paddy transplanters which are commercially available. | Field performance and cost economics of popular riding type mechanical paddy transplanters
