<;P>;PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a direct seeder for directly sowing seeds such as rice seeds in a field while traveling, which feeds rice seeds in a rice seed hopper so as not to collide against the inner wall of a release column and orderly sowing the rice seeds in a seed furrow. <;P>;SOLUTION: In the direct seeder for feeding a prescribed amount of seeds from a feeding hole 50 of a feeding roll 49 arranged on the bottom of the seed hopper 48, dropping and sowing seeds in a seeding furrow of a field formed by a seeding furrow opener, the opening end part 51bt of a feeding column 51 enclosing the rotary front side of the feeding roll 49 is disposed a little lower than just beside the feeding roll 49, seeds in the feeding hole 50 are naturally dropped in the release column 53 without influence of centrifugal force and sowed in the seeding furrow formed by the seeding furrow opener. <;P>;COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT