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Agriculture is the most important sector of Indian economy. Rice being the major crop cultivated in India, a huge amount of workforce is engaged in rice production. The common practice of rice cultivation is manual transplanting of seedlings. Besides being costly, cumbersome and time consuming it is very labor intensive task. To mechanize the transplanting system several attempts have been made to design and fabricate transplanting machines. Due to the high price of an automated paddy transplanter it becomes impossible for a small scale farmer to purchase a non-subsidized automated paddy transplanter. An attempt has been made to fabricate a compact and electric driven paddy transplanter which is effective as well as cheap. Selection of an efficient power transmission system and a suitable mechanism to drive the planting claw is given due consideration in its design. The objective of this project is to design a paddy transplanting mechanism to transplant rice seedlings by small scale farmers motorizedin the country