Presently, manual transplanting method is being adopted at most of the area under vegetable cultivation. Manual transplanting one has to make a dug by hand and place the seedling in the soil and cover it. All operations need to be done in bending posture and very tedious. The labour and time consuming; it consumes the 260-320 man-h/ha. Semi-automatic vegetable transplanters are available in India for bare root, plug and pot type of seedlings. But they are too costly for small farmers. However, to have enhanced efficiency the worker a need was felt to develop low cost, lightweight two-row transplanter which can be operated at less efforts and higher work rate than that of single row hand-held vegetable transplanter. Hence, two-row hand-held vegetable transplanters for transplanting of vegetable seedlings on the ridge/raised bed and plastic mulch has been developed to provide a solution to the manual operation at small farms. It was evaluated for inter and intra-row spacings of 45×45 cm and 60×60 cm. Manual transplanting on ridges (MTR) and on plastic mulch beds (MTP) was compared with manually operated transplanter on ridges (MOTR) and on plastic mulch beds (MOTP). The transplanting rate using single labour was found to be 8, 5, 23 and 17 seedlings per min for Manual transplanting on ridges (MTR) and on plastic mulch beds (MTP) manually operated transplanter on ridges (MOTR) and on plastic mulch beds (MOTP). The field capacity was calculated as 0.009-0.017; 0.007-0.0012; 0.028-0.025 and 0.020-0.018 for MTR, MTP, MOTR, and MOTP for both the spacings respectively. Similarly, field efficiency was 30-41%; 21-28%; 90-60% and 66%-44%. Moreover, cost of operation (Rs/ha) it was found to be 2571-1416; 3770-2121; 884-994 and 1200-1350 Rs/ha. The time saving over manual transplanting is 47% and 32% in MOTR and MOTP, respectively.