This work was focused on design and evaluation of a manually operated single row planter for different field crop seeds, easy to use, easy to maintain, light in weight, requires less labour and costs. Thesingle row planter consists of the main frame, seed hopper, seed metering device, drive wheels, seed tube,furrow opener, furrowcloser and push handle. Most of these were fabricated from steel metals, except metering device which was made from good quality nylon, all machine componentswere designed to achieve good performance and long operation life span. Laboratory and field tests were conducted to evaluate the single row planter which were included: field capacity, field efficiency, amount of seed per feddan, and costs.Results revealed that the designedmachinehad highly performancein field capacity reachedto7.6 and 10.2 times for maize sowing at 1.89 and 2.61 km/h forward speeds,and about 8.9 and 11.9 times for faba beanat 1.83 and2.58 km/h forward speedsand the amount of seeds per feddan were decreased by 40 and 11.5 % for maize and faba bean respectively. comparing with manual planting.The total cost of feddan cultivate by the single row planter was less than the manual plantingby 95.92 & 96.63 % and 89.35 & 89.84 % for maize and faba bean respectively under the two possible speeds.Moreover, it was relieved thatthe designed machine cultivates at straight line and same depth and reduce hardship on labours compared with the manual planting.