ABE 3411 LAB – AB Power Engineering

Laboratory Exercise No. 2

Sources of Farm Power

OBJECTIVES:
1. To familiarize the student to the different sources of farm power.
2. To familiarize the student to the different applications of sources of power in
the agriculture.

PROCEDURE:
1. Identify the different farm power source available in your community.
2. Identify the different agricultural activities in your community.
3. Discuss the application of the identified power source to help farmers in your
community from their different agricultural activities.

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

1. Different farm power source available in your community (San Luis, Aurora)

San Luis is predominantly an agricultural town. A total of 6, 865.05 hectares

or 10% of its total area is allocated for agriculture. Human labour, carabaos
(animal that is mainly used in our town), machineries and the San Luis Mini-Hydro
Power Plant are all used as sources of power in farm or agricultural productions.

2. Agricultural activities in your community

Soil preparation, sowing, supplying nutritional supplements for crops,

irrigation, weeding, harvesting including threshing or winnowing for small scale,
and storing of farm products.

3. Application of power source to different agricultural activities.

Human labour is still widely used in our community as the main source of
power in agricultural activities. Human labour force is applicable and flexible to
do any agricultural works but is limited to certain degree. It is most useful power
to use in weeding by manually pulling unwanted plants with hands (as the power
used is controlled enough to not destroyed the crops), in sowing, in distributing
fertilizers and many more. More so, carabaos, for animal power, is commonly
utilized here in land preparation such as plowing and harrowing and was also
helpful during harvesting. Mechanical power through tractors and machineries,
on the other hand, greatly helps in increasing agricultural worker’s productivity. It
became the support power in declining numbers of farm workers. Costly yet the
assistance it brought is undeniably important in plowing, planting, cultivating,
fertilizing, harvesting, storing and even in transporting agricultural products. This
not just lessens the heavy load of works in field but it also became an instrument
to save the worker’s time and energy. And lastly, the renewable power through
the town’s Mini-Hydro Power Plant helps the farmer of three nearby barangays
by irrigation.