Uses of Farm Hand Tools

FARM TOOLS IN AGRICULTURAL CROP

PRODUCTION
• Farm tools, implements, and equipment play
very important role in agricultural crop
production. Their makes the work much
easier and faster. However, even if one may
have the most sophisticated tools and
implements, but does not know how to use
them, they are useless.
Hand tools
– are usually light and are
used without the help of
animals or machines.
Different Farm Hand Tools
1. Bolo
– is used for cutting tall grasses and
weeds and chopping branches of
trees.
2. Crowbar
– is used for digging big
holes and for digging out
big stones and stumps.
3. Pick Mattock

– is used for digging canals,

breaking hard top soil and for
digging up stones and tree stumps.
4. Grab hoe
– is used for breaking hard
topsoil and pulverizing
soil.
5. Spade

– is used for removing trash or soil,

digging canals or ditches and mixing
soil media.
6. Rake
– is used for cleaning the
ground and leveling the
top soil.
7. Spading fork

– is used for loosening the soil,

digging out root crops and turning
over the materials in a compost
heap.
8. Hand trowel
– is used for loosening the
soil around the growing
plants and putting small
amount of manure
fertilizer in the soil.
9. Pruning shears
– is used for cutting branches of
planting materials and unnecessary
branches of plants.
10. Axe
– is used for cutting bigger
size post.
11. Sprinklers
– is used for watering seedlings and
young plants.
12. Water pail
– is used for hauling water,
manure and fertilizers.
13. Sprayer
– is used for
spraying
insecticides, foliar
fertilizers,
fungicides and
herbicides
14. Wheel barrow
– is used for hauling trash,
manures, fertilizers,
planting materials and
other equipment.
15. Sickle
– is a hand-held agricultural tool
with a variously curved blade
typically used for cutting weeds.
Classification of hand
tools
1. Cutting tools
2. Leveling/Loosening
tools
3. Hauling tools
4. Digging tools
GOD BLESS YOU!
EVALUATION:

DIRECTION: identify the pictures shown and classify

hand tools according to their uses.
1. 2.
 ASSIGNMENT
1. What is farm implements?

2. What are the example of hand tools?