FARM TOOLS
IN AGRICULTURAL
CROP PRODUCTION
Farm tools, implements, and equipment play very
important role in agricultural crop production. Their
availability makes the work much easier and faster.
However, even if one may have the most sophisticated
tools and implements, but does not know how to use
them, they are useless. In order to do crop production
operations successfully, one must have a good working
knowledge of the tools, implements and equipment
before using them.
Hand Tools
Hand tools are usually light and are used without
the help of animals or machines. They are being used in
performing farm activities which involve small areas
like school garden and home garden.
Bolo is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and
chopping branches of trees.
Crowbar is used for digging big holes and for digging
out big stones and stumps.
Pick-mattock is used for digging canals, breaking hard
topsoil and for digging up stones and tree stumps.
Grab-hoe is used for breaking hard topsoil and
pulverizing soil.
Spade is used for removing trash or soil, digging
canals or ditches and mixing soil media.
Shovel is used in removing trash, digging loose soil,
moving soil from one place to another and for mixing
soil media.
Rake is used for cleaning the ground and leveling the
topsoil.
Spading fork is used for loosening the soil, digging
out root crops and turning over the materials in a
compost heap.
Light hoe is used for loosening and leveling soil and
digging out furrows for planting
Hand trowel is used for loosening the soil around the
growing plants and putting small amount of manure
fertilizer in the soil.
Hand cultivator is used for cultivating the garden plot
by loosening the soil and removing weeds around the
plant.
Hand fork is used for inter row cultivation.
Pruning shears is for cutting branches of planting
materials and unnecessary branches of plants.
Axe is for cutting bigger size post.
Knife is for cutting planting materials and for
performing other operations in horticulture
Sprinklers – for watering seedlings and young plants
Water pails – for hauling water, manure and fertilizer
Sprayers are for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers,
fungicides and herbicide
Wheel barrow is used for hauling trash, manures,
fertilizers, planting materials and other equipment
Sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously
curved blade typically used for cutting weeds.
FARM IMPLEMENTS
These are accessories which are being pulled by
working animals or mounted to machineries (hand
tractor, tractor) which are usually used in the
preparation of land. These are usually made of a
special kind of metal.
FARM IMPLEMENTS
1. Plows. These are farm implements either pulled by a
working animal or a tractor. The plow is specifically
used for tilling large areas, making furrows and inter
row cultivation. Plows pulled by working animals are
made of either a combination of metal and wood or
pure metal. They are used to till areas with a shallower
depth than that of the disc plows which are pulled by
tractors.
FARM IMPLEMENTS
1. Plows.
FARM IMPLEMENTS
1. Plows.
FARM IMPLEMENTS
2. Harrow. The native wooden harrow is made of
wood with a metal teeth and pulled by a carabao while
the disc harrow is made of metal mounted to a tractor.
Harrows are used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.
FARM IMPLEMENTS
2. Harrow.
FARM IMPLEMENTS
3. Rotavator. The rotavator is an implement mounted
to a tractor used for tilling and pulverizing the soil
FARM IMPLEMENTS
3. Rotavator.
COMMON FARM
EQUIPMENTS
FARM EQUIPMENTS
- are machineries used for crop
production
- used in land preparation and in
transporting farm inputs and
products.
Hand Tractor
- used to pull plow and harrow in
preparing large area of land.
Hand Tractor
Four Wheel Tractor
- used to pull disc plow and disc
harrow in preparing much bigger
area of land.
Four Wheel Tractor
Water Pumps
- used to draw irrigation water
from a source.
Water Pumps
OTHER COMMON FARM
EQUIPMENTS
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