LESSON 1.

Identifying Required Materials, Tools and Equipment for Horticultural

Production
Learning Objectives:

At the end of the lesson, students are should be able to:

1. Identifying Required Materials, Tools and Equipment for Horticultural Production

2.Appreciate the importance of Materials, Tools and Equipment for Horticultural Production
3.Prepare a required materials, tools and equipment for a task
Directions: Choose the letter of the
best answer.
1. What tool is used for loosening
the soil around the growing plants
and putting small amount of manure
fertilizer in the soil?
A. hand trowel B. hand cultivator
C. hand fork D. shovel
2. Used in cutting tall grasses and
weeds and chopping branches of
trees.
A. Axe
B. Bolo
C. Water Pail
D. Rake
3. What will you prepare if your task is
to till large areas, make furrows and do
inter row cultivations in the absence of
tractor and disc machines?
A. thresher B. corn dehusker
C. rotavator D. native plow
4. What do you need to till large
areas and pulverize the soil?
A. thresher
B. corn dehusker
C. rotavator
D. native plow
5. Which farm equipment is needed if
you are tilling large area using disc plow
and disc harrow?
A. plow
B. four-wheel tractor
C. hand tractor
D. water pump
DEFINITIO
N OF
TERMS
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:
Objectsthat 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
HAND TOOLS:
Usually light and are used
without the help of animals
or machines.
Usually light and are used
without the help of animals
or machines.
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:
 is 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 for inter
row cultivation.
13.) PRUNING SHEARS:
Used for cutting
branches of planting
materials and
unnecessary branches
of plants.
14.) AXE:
Usedforcutting
bigger size post.
15.) KNIFE:
Used for cutting
planting materials
and for performing
other operations in
horticulture.
16.) SPRINKLERS:
Used for watering
seedling and young
plants.
17.) WATER PAILS:
Usedfor 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.
EVALUATI
Get ¼ sheet of paper.

ON
Write your name and
your section.
NO ERASURES!
 FARM
IMPLEMENTS
FARM IMPLEMENTS:
Are accessories which are
being pulled by working
animals or mounted to
machines which are
usually used in the
preparation of land.
1.)PLOWS:
Used for tilting large
areas, making furrows
and inter row
cultivation.
Native Plow
Disc Plow
2.) HARROW:
Usedfor tilting and
pulverizing the soil.
Native Wooden Harrow
Disc Harrow
3.) ROTAVATOR:
Animplement
mounted to a tractor
used for tilting and
pulverizing the soil.
COMMON FARM
EQUIPMENT
FARM EQUIPMENT:
Are machineries used in
crop production.
Used in land preparation
and in transporting farm
inputs and products.
HAND TRACTOR:
harrow
Used topull
in preparing
a plow large

area of
land.
FOUR WHEEL TRACTOR
Used to pull disc plow
and disc harrow in
preparing much bigger
area of land.
WATER PUMPS:
Usedto draw irrigation
water from a source.
 Other
Common Farm
Equipment
THRESHER
Amachine used for
separating grain crops
into grain or seeds and
straw.
CORN DEHUSKER
Amachine used to peel
the skin or corn and make
the maize removed from
the cob.
RICE/CORN HARVESTER
Combined six operation
such as gathering,
transporting, reaping,
threshing, cleaning and
bagging into one machine.
GRASS CUTTER/LAWN MOWER
Usedto cut a lawn to an
even height.
RICE SEEDER
Used for sowing
germinated paddy seed
directly in wetland field.
MILLER/MILLING MACHINE
Used to grind a grain.
 FARM
INPUTS
1.) SEEDS:
2.) FERTILIZER:
3.) INSECTICIDES:
 FARM
LABOR
1.)Plowing using tractor
2.)Clearing of land using hoe.
3.)Plowing using animal.
4.)Harrowing using hand
tractor.
1.) Pulling of seedlings.
2.) Transplanting of seedlings.
1.) Fertilizer Application.
2.) Pest Control.
3.) Irrigation.
4.) Weeding.
5.) Harvesting.
6.) Threshing rice.
7.) Drying rice.
8.) Threshing corn.
9.) Drying corn.
10.) Storing.
 PERFORM
ESTIMATION AND
BASIC CALCULATION
Definition
of Terms
AREA:
Refers to the size
of the surface.
FERTILIZER:
Any material
added to the soil
to support
nutrient.
GERMINATION:
The development
of the seed into
a young plant.
GRAPH:
A drawing in which the
relationship between
two (or more) items of
information is shown in
a symbolic way.
GROSS INCOME/ SALES:

The equivalent
value of the
product sold.
INTEREST:
The corresponding value
that will be added to the
principal as payment for
using money of the
lender.
LABOR:
Refers to the work
by farm
performed by farm
workers in exchange
for salary.
NET INCOME:
The value remains
after all the expenses
have been deducted
from the gross income
or sales.
PRINCIPAL:
Refersto the amount
you owed.
VOLUME:
Thecontent of a
body or object.
ACRONYMS
MAD (Man Animal Day)
Refers to the number
of day/s the work
will be completed by
1 person and 1
animal.
MD (Manday)
Refers to the number
of day/s the work
will be completed by
1 person.