<;P>;PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paddy working apparatus hardly collecting straw wastes or the like on a soil covering plate, and advantageous even to assembling and cost. <;P>;SOLUTION: The paddy working apparatus includes: a furrower 23 for supplying granules while forming a ditch on the paddy surface; and the soil covering plate 39 for backfilling the ditch formed by the furrower 23. In the paddy working apparatus, the soil covering plate 39 is mounted on the furrower 23 so as to locate just at the rear of the furrower 23. <;P>;COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT