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.
Grab-hoe is used for breaking
hard topsoil and pulverizing
soil.
Bolo is used for cutting tall
grasses and weeds and chopping Spade is used for removing trash
branches of trees. or soil,
digging canals or ditches and
mixing soil
media.
Crowbar is used for digging big
holes and for digging out big
stones and stumps.
Shovel is used in removing
trash, digging
loose soil, moving soil from one
place to
another and for mixing soil
media.
Pick-mattock is used for digging
canals,
breaking hard topsoil and for
digging up stones and tree
stumps.
Rake is used for cleaning the
ground and
leveling the topsoil.
Hand fork is used for inter row
Spading fork is used for cultivation.
loosening the soil,
digging out root crops and
turning over the
materials in a compost heap.
Pruning shears is for cutting
branches of
planting materials and
unnecessary branches
of plants.
Light hoe is used for loosening
and leveling soil and digging
out furrows for planting
Axe is for cutting bigger size
post.
Hand trowel is used for
loosening the soil
around the growing plants and
putting small amount of manure
fertilizer in the soil.
Knife is for cutting planting
materials and for performing
other operations in horticulture
Hand cultivator is used for
cultivating the
garden plot by loosening the
soil and removing weeds around
the plant.
Water pails – for hauling water,
manure and fertilizers
Sickle-Is a hand-held
agricultural tool with a
variously curved blade typically
used for cutting weeds.
Farm implements
Accessories which are being
Sprayers are for spraying pulled by working animals or
insecticides, foliar
mounted to machineries which are
fertilizers, fungicides and
usually used in the preparation
herbicides
of land.
Plows- Used for
tilling large areas, making
furrows, and inter-row
Sprinklers – for watering cultivation
seedlings and young plants
Native plow
Wheel barrow-Is used for hauling
trash, manures, fertilizers,
planting materials and other
equipment
Disc plow
Rotavator- An implement mounted
to a tractor used for tilling
Harrow-Used for tilling and and pulverizing the soil.
pulverizing the soil
Farm Equipment
Accessories which are being
pulled by working animals or
mounted to machineries which are
usually used in the preparation
of land
Native harrow
Hand tractor
Disc harrow
Rice harvester
Four-wheel tractor
Water pump
Grass cutter
Thresher
Rice seeder
Corn dehusker Miller
Farm Labor
LABOR REQUIREMENT FOR
Farm inputs LAND PREPARATION
Seeds
Plowing using tractor
Fertilizers CLEARING OF THE LAND USING HOE
Insecticides
Plowing using animal
LABOR REQUIREMENT FOR
PLANT CARE
Fertilizer application
Harrowing using tractor
LABOR REQUIREMENT IN
PLANTING
Pest control
Irrigation
Pulling of seedling
Transplanting of seedlings Weeding
Harvesting
Threshing rice
Drying rice
storing