# Transplanter
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{{Short description|Agricultural machine}}thumb|Five-row transplanter
A '''transplanter''' is an [agricultural machine](/source/agricultural_machinery) used for transplanting [seedlings](/source/seedlings) to the [field](/source/Field_(agriculture)). Transplanters greatly reduce time required to transplant seedlings compared to manual transplanting. Among the crops that are transplanted with transplanters are tomatoes, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, lettuce, and rice.[{{Cite journal |last=Tsuga |first=Konosuke |date=2000 |title=Tsuga, K. (2000). Development of fully automatic vegetable transplanter |url=https://www.jircas.go.jp/sites/default/files/publication/jarq/34-1-021-028_0.pdf |journal=Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=21-28}}][{{Cite journal |last=Kumar |first=G. V. Prasanna |last2=Raheman |first2=H. |date=2011-10-01 |title=Development of a walk-behind type hand tractor powered vegetable transplanter for paper pot seedlings |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1537511011001292 |journal=Biosystems Engineering |volume=110 |issue=2 |pages=189–197 |doi=10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2011.08.001 |issn=1537-5110|url-access=subscription }}]
Semi-automatic transplanters require seedlings to be manually fed into the transplanter, which limits operating speed and operating time. They have been developed for bare-root seedlings as well as seedlings with soil. Fully automatic transplanters are faster and require less labor. However, they require seedlings to be in paper pots.