PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To readily gathering and conveying surface soil (seed buried in the soil) by using a mechanical force. SOLUTION: This recovering system is constituted of a surface soil-loosening device 1 for loosening the surface soil and sucking the soil with a sucking hose 4, a cyclone-type soil-collecting part 2 connected to the sucking hose 4, and a sucking device 3 connected to the soil-collecting part 2.