AE 121: Introduction to Agricultural Engineering

Classwork (Agricultural Mechanization)

Name: ______________________________________________________ Year & Section: __________________ Date submitted: __________

Instruction: Identify (as many as you can) the commonly grown crops/commodity (i.e. corn, rice, sugarcane, peanuts, potato, root crops, fruits and any vegetables,
etc.) in your locality, nearby municipalities, nearby provinces, and in our country and determine the level of mechanization involved in each
crop/commodity from land preparation to threshing operations. Strictly follow the specified format below. Please read and understand first the two
lecture materials (AE 121: Agricultural Machinery Lecture (tillage) and AE 121: Lectures on Crop Establishment, Maintenance, Harvesting and
Threshing equipment) previously provided to you before you answer this activity.

Reminders: Write NEATLY your answers in a clean sheet of bond paper/s or yellow paper/s. Write your name in every page of your answer sheet. Any act of
dishonesty such as copying or duplicating the work of your classmate is strictly prohibited. Your work WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED OR
RECOGNIZED once you are caught duplicating the work of your classmate/s. Please answer this activity thoroughly because this will serve as your
bring home quiz and assignment.

Crop/commodity Operations (from tillage, crop Level of Mechanization Places where each Benefits
establishment, maintenance, crop/commodity is
harvesting and threshing equipment) commonly grown
1. 1. Rice (Example a. Plowing, harrowing, etc Use of animal drawn moldboard plow or Region XI only or
only) (Tillage operation) tractor, power tiller etc. Region 12 only or
anywhere in the
b. Transplanting (crop Manual transplanting (Human Power) or rice
Philippines (please
establishment operation) transplanter etc
specify places)
c. Spraying, weeding, Use of lever operated knapsack sprayer, etc.
fertilizing, etc (crop
maintenance)
d. Harvesting operation Manual harvesting (using sickle (garab), etc)
or using Rice combine Harvester
e. Threshing operation Using mechanical thresher (through flow, etc)
or using Rice combine (combine Harvester
and thresher)
2. 2. corn a.
b.
c.
 d.
3. 3. sugarcane

4. 4. etc

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