FARMING

TOOLS,
IMPLEMENTS,
AND
EQUIPMENT
Presented by:

RICHARD B. BERNABE
MT-I/ Des. Head Vo-Ag Dept.
 HAND TOOLS
• are usually light
• used without the help of animals
or machines
• used in performing farm activities
which involve small areas like
school garden and home garden.
 1. Bolo

• used for cutting

tall grasses and
weeds
• chopping
branches of
trees.
 2. Crowbar
• used for
digging big
holes
• for digging out
big stones and
stumps.
3. Pick-mattock

• used for
digging canals,
breaking hard
topsoil
• for digging up
stones and tree
stumps.
 4. Grab-hoe
• used for
breaking hard
topsoil
• 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 the
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
• removing weeds
around the plant.
 12. Hand fork
• used for inter
row cultivation.
 13. Pruning shears
• for cutting
branches of
planting
materials and
unnecessary
branches of
plants.
 14. Axe
• used for cutting
bigger size post.
 15. Pruning knife
• for cutting
planting
materials and
for performing
other operations
in horticulture.
 16. Sprinkler
• used for
watering
seedlings and
young plants.
17. Water pail
• used for
hauling water,
manure and
fertilizers.
18. Sprayer
• for spraying
insecticides,
foliar fertilizers,
fungicides and
herbicides.
19. Wheel barrow
• used for hauling
trash, manures,
fertilizers,
planting
materials and
other equipment.
 20. Sickle and Scythe
• a hand-
held agricultural tool 
with a variously
curved blade typically
used for cutting
weeds
 21. Post hole digger
• used for digging
holes from small
to moderately
sized hole
especially in
orchard
production.
22. Dibble or Dibbler

• is a tool to help
you dig a hole in
the soil to plant
your seeds or
starter plants
into. 
 23. Germination tray

• is a tool to help
you dig a hole in
the soil to plant
your seeds or
starter plants
into. 
24. Long Tape
24. Rice Hull Carbonizer
 IMPLEMENTS
• are accessories which are being
pulled by working animals or
mounted to machineries (hand
tractor, tractor)
• used in the preparation of land.
These are usually made of a
special kind of metal.
1. Plow
• is specifically used for tilling
large areas, making furrows
and inter row cultivation.
Native plow
Disc plow
 2. Harrow
• are used for tilling and
pulverizing the soil.
Native wooden harrow
Steel bar harrow
Disc harrow
 3. Rotavator
• an implement mounted to a tractor
used for tilling and pulverizing the
soil.
 EQUIPMENT
• are machineries used in crop
production especially in vegetable
production.
They are used in land preparation and
in transporting farm inputs and products.
These equipment need a highly
skilled operator to use.
 1. Hand tractor

• is used to pull a plow and harrow in

preparing a large area of land.
2. Four wheel tractor

• is used to pull disc plow and disc harrow

in preparing much bigger area of land.
 3. Water pump

• used to draw irrigation water from a

source.
4. Rice thresher

• used to separate rice grain from its hay.

5. Rice harvester

• used to separate rice grain from its hay.

5. Rice transplanting machine

 a specialized transplanter fitted to

transplant rice seedlings onto paddy field
6. Grass cutter

• used to trim large area of grass.

 7. Rice milling machine

• it removes the rice husk, polish and sort the rice.

 8. Earth auger

• used to drill soil by making a hole.

 9. Power Sprayer

• Ideal for spraying agricultural chemicals and

fertilizers on farms, greenhouses and orchards.