Farm tools
in Agricultural Crop
Production
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
SPRINKLERS
•for watering
seedlings and
young plants
WATER PAILS
• for hauling
water, manure
and fertilizers
SPRAYERS
SPRAYERS
•are for spraying
insecticides, foliar
fertilizers,
fungicides and
herbicides
WHEEL BORROW
• 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 accesories which
are being pulled by a working
animal or mounted to
machineries(hand
tractor/tractor) which are
usually used in the
preparation of land.
PLOW
PLOW
Native plow Disc plow
PLOWS
• pulled by a working animal
or a tractor.
• specifically used for tilling
large areas, making furrows
and inter row cultivation.
native plow
Disc plow
HARROW
• used for tilling and pulverizing
the soil.
• Native wooden harrow is made
of wood with a metal teeth and
pulled by a carabao.
• Disc harrow is made of metal
mounted in tractor.
Native wooden harrow
Disc Horrow
ROTAVATOR
• an implement mounted to a
tractor used in tilling and
pulverizing the soil
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