To provide a sugarcane planting implement capable of performing a planting work efficiently, even in the case of a field having clay soil.SOLUTION: An implement for performing a planting work of a sugarcane seedling by traveling along a field in the pulled state by a tractor, and by dropping stem-like sugarcane seedlings at a prescribed interval into a planting groove provided in the field, while traveling, followed by soil covering and soil packing, includes, on the rear of an implement body 100, a rotary plow blade-attached soil covering device 160 for performing soil covering by leveling, by right and left rotary plow blades 163A, 163A, a part of both inside walls SW of the planting groove M provided in the field G, while traveling.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1【課題】粘土質の土壌をもつ圃場であっても、効率的に植付け作業を行うことが可能な、サトウキビの植付け作業機を提供する。【解決手段】トラクターに牽引されて圃場を走行し、走行と共に圃場に設けられた植溝に茎状のサトウキビ種苗を所定間隔で落下させた後、覆土および鎮圧してサトウキビ種苗を植付け作業する作業機であって、作業機本体100の後部に、走行と共に圃場Gに設けられた植溝Mの両内側壁SWの一部を左右の回転する鋤刃163A,163Aにより崩して覆土する回転鋤刃付き覆土装置160を備える。【選択図】図1