Field experiments were conducted at Agricultural Research Station, Garikapadu, Krishna district during rabi, 2016-17 and kharif, 2017 to assess the influence of various cultivation methods viz., Manual transplanting (line planting); Manual transplanting (random planting); Direct sown; Drum seeder and Machine transplanting (8 row) on incidence of rice pests. The results indicated that among all the methods, machine transplanted plots (T5) comparatively recorded significantly mean lower incidence of per cent dead hearts (2.1 & 6.8), white ears (10.6 & 5.3), silver shoots (2.1 & 3.8), leaf folder damaged leaves (6.7 & 10.5), number of BPH population/hill (19.3 & 98.0) and number of WBPH population/hill (11.5 & 70.0) during rabi, 2016-17 and kharif, 2017 respectively. It is inferred from the analyzed data that, T5 was found on par with T2 (Line planting) in harbouring mean incidence of maximum pests and the direct sown plots recorded highest pest population among all the methods both during rabi, 2016-17 and kharif, 2017.