11-TVL (Agricultural Crops Production) Subject teacher: MR. JOSUE A. SESPENE JR.

Lesson 1: Farm Tools and Equipment

Definition of Terms:
-AGRICULTURE - It is the branch of science which deals with the productions of plants and raising of animals useful to
man. It involves soil cultivation, breeding and management of crops and livestock
-CROP - When plants of same kind are grown and cultivated at one place on a large scales, it is called a crop.
Different types of crops require different climate conditions.
-FARM EQUIPMENT - machineries used in crop production. Used in land preparation and in transporting farm inputs and
products.
-FARM IMPLEMENTS - Accessories pulled by animals or animals to machineries to make the work easier.
-FARM TOOLS - Objects that are usually lights and are used without the help of animals and machineries.
-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.
-REPAIR - To restore to good condition something broken or damaged.

FARM TOOLS IN AGRICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION

1. Bolo - Used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees
2. Crowbar - Used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps.
3. Pick Mattock - Used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and for digging up stones and tree stumps.
4. Grab Hoe - Used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.
5. Spade - Used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches and mixing soil media.
6. Shovel - Used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another and for mixing soil media.
7. Rake - Used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.
8. Spading fork - Used for loosening the soil, digging out root crops and turning over the materials in a compost heap.
9. Light hoe - Used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows for planting.
10. Hand trowel -Used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small amount of manure fertilizer in
the soil.
11. Hand cultivator - Used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing weeds around the plant.
12. Hand fork - Used fork inter row cultivation..
13. Pruning shears - Used for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants.
14. Axe - Used for cutting bigger size post.
15. Knife - Used for cutting planting materials and for performing other operations in horticulture
16. Sprinklers - Used for watering seedlings and young plants.
17. Water pales - Used for hauling water, manure and fertilizers.
18. Sprayers - Used for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides.
19. Wheel barrow - Used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials and other equipment.
20. Sickle - A hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for cutting weeds.

Activity No. 1

1. Draw / Sketch at least five (10) Hand Tool/s that you used in gardening.
2. Write the definition on each drawing/ sketch.