TLE 7 – AGRICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION

DEFINITION OF TERMS
1. Equipment - powered tool machine used in farming
2. Farm implements - accessories pulled by animals or mounted to machineries to make the work easier
3. Hand tools - objects that are usually light and are used without the help of animals and machines
4. Preventive maintenance - an activity or operation done to prevent malfunction of tools and equipment and it is
done to prolong the useful life of tools and equipment
5. Repair - to restore to good condition something broken or damaged

FARM TOOLS IN AGRICULTURAL CROP OPERATION

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.
It is used for cutting tall
It is used for watering
grasses and weeds and
BOLO SPRINKLER seedlings and young
chopping branches of
plants.
trees.
It is used for digging big It is used for hauling
CROWBAR holes and for digging out WATER PAIL water, manure and
big stones and stumps. fertilizers.
It is used for digging It is used for spraying
PICK- canals, breaking hard insecticides, foliar
SPRAYER
MATTOCK topsoil and for digging up fertilizers, fungicides
stones and tree stumps. and herbicides.
It is used for hauling
trash, manures,
It is used for breaking hard WHEEL
GRAB-HOE BARROW fertilizers, planting
topsoil and pulverizing soil.
materials and other
equipment.
It is a hand-held
It is used for removing
agricultural tool with a
trash or soil, digging canals
SPADE SICKLE variously curved blade
or ditches and mixing soil
typically used for cutting
media.
weeds.
It is used in removing It is for cutting planting
trash, digging loose soil, materials and for
SHOVEL moving soil from one place KNIFE performing other
to another and for mixing operations in
soil media. horticulture.
It is used for cleaning the
It is for cutting bigger
RAKE ground and leveling the AXE
size post.
topsoil.
It is used for loosening the
It is for cutting branches
soil, digging out root crops
SPADING PRUNING of planting materials and
and turning over the
FORK SHEAR unnecessary branches
materials in a compost
of plants.
heap.
It is used for loosening and
It is used for inter row
LIGHT HOE leveling soil and digging HAND FORK
cultivation.
out furrows for planting.
It is used for loosening the It is used for cultivating
soil around the growing the garden plot by
HAND HAND
plants and putting small loosening the soil and
TROWEL CULTIVATOR
amount of manure fertilizer removing weeds around
in the soil. the plant.