TLE: Agricultural Crop

Production
Grade 7 - 8

(2023-2024)
 Lesson 1:
USE OF FARM TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
LO1. Select and use farm tools.
1. Appropriate farm tools are identified according to use.

2. Farm tools are checked for faults.

3. Appropriate tools are safely used according to job requirements and

manufacturers’ conditions.
 Sprinklers 16
hand trowel 4 17 hand
tools 8
shovel
sprayer

light hoe 5 grab-hoe 9

bolo 1 7 axe 18
knife 12
backpack
sprayer
13 hand fork
rake 6
2 hand 10 grab-hoe
cultivator
spading 14
fork 19
3 wheel 11 pail spade
barrow

sickle
20
15
Pruning shears
TOOLS
üusually light
üused without the help of animals or machines
ümanipulated by hands with no assistance from any energy
üused only for small agricultural works/ farms/areas
BOLO
-cutting tall grasses and
weeds

-chopping branches of
trees.
Pick-mattock
-for digging canals

-breaking hard topsoil

-for digging up stones and tree

stumps
Grab-hoe
-used for breaking hard topsoil

-pulverizing soil
Spade
-used for removing trash or soil

-digging canals or ditches

-mixing soil media

Shovel
-used in removing trash digging loosesoil

-moving soil from one place to another

-for mixing soil media

Rake
-used for cleaning the ground

-leveling the topsoil.

Spading fork
-used for loosening the soil

-digging out root crops

-turning over the materials in a

compost heap
Light hoe
-used for loosening

-leveling soil

-digging out furrows for planting

Hand trowel
-used for loosening the soil around the
growing plants

-putting small amount of manure

fertilizer in the soil
Hand cultivator
-used for cultivating the garden plot by
loosening the soil

-removing weeds around the plant

Hand fork
-used for inter row cultivation.
Pruning shears
-for cutting branches of planting materials

-unnecessary branches of plants

Axe
- for cutting bigger size post
Knife
-for cutting planting materials

-for performing other operations

in horticulture
Sprinklers
-for watering seedlings
and young plants
Water pails
-for hauling water, manure
and fertilizers
Hand sprayer
-spraying in small areas
Knapsack sprayer
-spraying pesticides and liquid
fertilizers in wide areas
Wheel barrow
- hauling trash, manures,
fertilizers, planting materials and
other equipment
Sickle
-a variously curved blade typically
used for cutting weeds
 3 Water
pumps

equipment
1 Hand 5 Grass
tractor Cutter

7
Thresher

4 Four-wheel
tractor 8 Rice
Miller

2 Rice
6 Corn
Harvester
Dehusker
EQUIPMENT
ümachineries used in crop production
üused in land preparation and in transporting farm inputs
and products
üneed a highly skilled operator to use.
Hand tractor
-to pull a plow and
harrow in preparing a
large area of land
Four-wheel tractor
-used to pull disc
plow and disc harrow
in preparing much
bigger area of land
Water pumps
-used to draw irrigation
water from a source.
Grass cutter
-used to keep the grass trim
 Rice harvester
-used for harvesting rice
grain, wheat grain and flour
the grass trim
Tresher
-Separator of small
grains and seed crops
from their chaff and straw
Corn dehusker
-peel off dry/wet corn from
the husk. It can be powered by
electric motor or diesel engine.
Rice Miller
-separates the rice grains
from its husk (rice hull)
 Wooden 4
Harrow 6 Wooden Plow
implements
1 Field
Sprayer 7 Metal Harrow

5 Rotavator

2
Disk Plow

3 Trailer
IMPLEMENTS
üThese are accessories being pulled by working animals or mounted to machineries

ü These are usually made of a special kind of metal.

üthese are accessories which are being pulled by working

üanimals or mounted to machineries (hand tractor, tractor) which are usually

üused in the preparation of land. These are usually made of a special kind of

ümetal.
 Field Sprayer
-used for applying liquid substances such as fertilizers
and pesticides to plants during the crop growth cycle
 - pulled by a working animal or a tractor.
Plows
-specifically used for tilling large areas,
making furrows and inter row cultivation
Native Plows
- pulled by working
animals
-are made of either a
combination of metal or
Disc Plow wood or pure metal. They
-pulled by tractors are used to till areas with a
- used to till areas deeper shallower depth.
 Harrow
-Harrows are used for tilling and
pulverizing the soil.
Native Wooden Harrow
-made of wood with a
metal teeth and pulled by a
carabao

Disc harrow
-made of metal
mounted to a tractor
Rotavator
-mounted to a tractor used for tilling and pulverizing
the soil
Trailer
-commonly used for the transport of goods and materials
THINGS TO REMEMBER
Øknow and assess the tasks or farm job
-prepare what tools/equipment needed considering the type of works and size of area
since the specification of task in the farm governs what tools/equipment are needed or to be
prepared
Øknow the proper uses of the tools/equipment: Familiarize tools/equipment and its functions
to prepare quickly and correctly the tools/equipment needed for a certain farm task.
Examples:
1. Loosening of soil and removing of weeds around the plants needs Hand cultivator and
not Hand trowel because hand trowel has different work with the Hand cultivator.
2. Preparation of a bigger land for a certain crop and it requires only a day or two. In task
like this; we need tractor and disc plow. We don’t need to prepare native plow because of the
area, “bigger land area”. Native plow can’t finish the vast field with in one (1) or two (2) days.
How much more the spade and other hand tools?
Ø Check for faults and defects before using