To provide a agitation type drying equipment which prevents the lowering of agitation efficiency, of thermal conductivity and of drying efficiency by sticking of materials to be dried to the inner walls of a drier body (horizontal-laid cylindrical body), an agitator shaft (revolving shaft) and agitator arms (rods of agitator blade elements).

This material agitation type drying equipment has a horizontal rotary agitator 14 within the horizontal cylindrical body 12, in which the agitator blades 15 of the horizontal rotary agitator are formed by connecting a plurality of the agitator blade elements 18 having the rod-like sections 18a to the circumference of the revolving shaft 16. Rigid annular bodies 38a and 38A and chain-like annular bodies 39 and 39A are movably fitted to be attached to the revolving shaft 16 and the agitator blade element rod-like sections 18a respectively approximately along their respective axial directions.