The invention relates to a yam plantation method, in particular to a mechanical directional half sleeve pipe yam ridge cultivation method which comprises the following steps: (1) carrying out deep plowing in winter to improve soil structure and reduce the diseases, pests and of harmful grass in yam land; (2) mechanically ridging in the middle ten days of April in spring by using a yam land ridging machine, wherein the heights of the ridges are 35-40cm; (3) directionally cultivating by using half sleeve pipes; and (4) mechanically harvesting in the middle or last ten days of October by using ayam harvesting plough. The invention has the advantages of saving yam planting and harvesting cost, creating the novel convenient, efficient, directional and labor-cost saving yam cultivating mode, overcoming the defect that the underground water level raises to cause adverse effect to the formation and the yield of the yam which is the tuber crop, solving the problems of mechanical ridge cultivation, high-density planting and mechanical harvesting and promoting the large-scale intensified and industrialized yam production. Due to the adoption of the method, the labor intensity is greatly reduced, the labor efficiency is improved, and the ridges are uniform and have good shapes.