USE OF FARM TOOLS AND

EQUIPMENT AND
MAINTENANCE
 HAND
TOOLS
Hand tools are
usually light and
are used
without the help
of animals or
machines.
 Bolo (Itak)

Bolo is used for cutting of grasses and weeds, loosening and pulverizing
the soil, digging small holes for planting and posts, and breaking the
topsoil in preparing garden plots if no other tools are available.
 Crowbar
Crowbar is used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps.
Pick-
mattock
is used for digging
canals, breaking
hard topsoil and for
digging up stones
and tree stumps.
Grab-hoe is used for breaking hard topsoil
and pulverizing soil.
Spade is used for
removing trash or soil,
digging canals or ditches
and mixing soil media.
Shovel is used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving
soil from one place to another and for mixing soil media.
A rake is a type of
gardening or landscaping
tool with a handle that
ends in a head. You can
use a rake for scooping,
scraping, gathering, or
leveling materials, such
as soil, mulch, or
leaves.
Spading fork is used for loosening the soil, digging out root crops and
turning over the materials in a compost heap.
Light hoe is used
for loosening and
leveling soil and
digging out
furrows for
planting.
 Hand trowel is
used for
loosening the soil
around the
growing plants
and putting small
amount of
manure in the
soil.
 Hand cultivator is used for cultivating the garden plot by
loosening the soil and removing young weeds around the plant.
 A hand fork is a
small, hand-held
gardening tool
designed to be used
with small plants or
seedlings. Because
they are often used
for digging up weeds,
hand forks are
sometimes referred to
as 'weeding forks'
Pruning shears
is for cutting
branches of
planting
materials and
unnecessary
branches of
plants.
 Knife is for
cutting
planting
materials and
for performing
other
operations in
horticulture.
 These are accessories which are being
pulled by working animals or mounted
to machineries (hand tractor, tractor)
FARM IMPLEMENTS
which are usually used in the
preparation of wide land. These are
usually made of a special kind of metal.

These are machineries used in

horticultural operations especially in
vegetable production. They are used in
EQUIPMENT land preparation and in transporting
farm inputs and products. This
equipment needs a highly skilled
operator to use.
Water pails
– for hauling
water,
manure and
fertilizers.
Sprinklers – for watering seedlings and young
plants
Wheel barrow
– for hauling
trash, manures,
fertilizers,
planting
materials and
other
equipment.
 Sprayers –
for spraying
insecticides,
foliar
fertilizers,
fungicides and
herbicides