1st week Flashcards
WHAT IS HORTICULTURE?
applied science of cultivating and growing plants used for both consumption and aesthetic or ornamental purposes.root crops, fruits, vegetables, trees, herbs, decorative plants, medicinal plants, gras
A branch or subcategory of agriculture. Focuses on cultivating, marketing, improving, and technology of plants for food and other human necessities
HORTICULTURE
A broad term that covers forestry, agronomy, animal husbandry, aquaculture, and horticulture
Agriculture
Covers cultivating plants and raising animals for food and other human necessities
Agriculture
Objects that are usually lights and are used with no help of animals and machineries
FARM TOOLS
Machineries used in crops
production.
FARM EQUIPMENT
Accessories pulled by animals or animals to machineries to make easier.
FARM IMPLEMENT
Used for cutting grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees.
BOLO
Used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches, and mixing soil. /
digging precise soil
SPADE
SHOVEL
Used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil and for mixing soil media..
Used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small amount of manure
fertilizer in the soil.
TROWEL
HOE
Used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.
Used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.
RAKE
CROWBAR
Used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps.
Used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing weeds around the plant.
HAND
CULTIVATOR
AXE
Used for cutting bigger size post.
Used for
for hauling trash, fertilizers, planting materials and other equipment.
WHEELBARROW
- Used for tilling large areas, making furrows and inter row cultivation
• Pulled by an animal/tractor
PLOW
HARROW
“Used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.
what are the two farm implements
harrow, plow
HAND TRACTOR
used to pull a plow and harrow preparing a in large area of land.
pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing much bigger area of land.
FOUR WHEELED
TRACTOR
WATER PUMP
used to draw
irrigation water from
a source.