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Not AvailableSRI has reached certain level of acceptance among the research and scientific community in major rice producing countries. The SRI method of rice cultivation involves planting single seedling in wider row spacing ie, 25x 25 cm, which involves more labour intensive and laborious process. Hence, the present study was conducted with an objective to compare the mechanized rice transplanting method with SRI method of cultivation. The study was conducted with four treatments viz., T1 - Planting with transplanter + SRI principles, T2 - Planting with manual labour (25 cm x 25 cm) + SRI principles, T3 - Conventional transplanting (20 cm x 10 cm), T4 - Farmers practices. The study indicated that mechanized transplanting with rice transplanter adopting 30 x 14 cm row spacing recorded more 10.00 per cent more yield when compared to SRI method of planting (25 x 25 cm spacing) with the high cost benefit ratio of 2.72.Not Availabl