THE Department of Science and Technology’s Metals Industry Research and Development Center (DOST-MIRDC) is promoting its rice transplanter attachment (RTA) for hand tractors to help farmers reduce ...

It was just this July that Japan's Yanmar Agri Corporation unveiled a line of driverless agricultural tractors. Now, as part of the same Smartpilot system, the company has announced an autonomous rice ...

Bangladesh's farm mechanisation would receive a much-needed boost if farmers embrace transplanters to sow seedlings as it would save labour, cost and time and provide higher yield, experts and ...

Farmers can avoid the labor-intensive and costly manual rice transplanting in puddled soils by shifting to an engine-driven mechanical transplanter. The traditional manual transplanting of rice in ...