Two field experiments were carried out at the Experimental Farm of the
Faculty of Agriculture (Saba Basha), Alexandria University, at Abees region, Alexandria. Egypt
during the two successive seasons of 2012 and 2013 to study the response of rice crop to
convenential and mechanical cultivation methods under N- fertilization levels on the yield, its
components and technological characters of sakha 101 variety.
The experiment design was a split plot with three replicates. The main plots were
occupied by nitrogen levels (40, 60 and 80 kg N/fed), while the subplots were consisted of two
planting methods (manual transplanting and mechanical transplanting).The main results could
be summarized as follows: Increasing nitrogen levels up to 80kg N/fed, significantly decreased
plant height and significantly increased yield and its components and rice grain quality
characters in the two planting methods while, these increases were higher in manual
transplanting than mechanical transplanting in the two seasons. on the other hand, the rice
production in manual transplanting per fed, increased by 41.80% comparing with mechanical
transplanting.