This paper compared the yield, cost and benefit of mechanical transplanting, walking mechanical direct seeding and drone direct seeding, and analyzed the efficiency and group uniformity of different planting methods with conventional japonica rice variety Xiushui 14 as the test variety. The results showed that the yield of rice drone direct seeding was not significantly different from that of machine transplanting and walking mechanical direct sowing, but it had the characteristics of high sowing efficiency, balanced population growth and low planting cost. Technical key points of drone direct seeding was proposed in this paper.