farm tools in agricultural crop production Flashcards
usually light and are used without the help of animals or machines. They are being used in performing farm activities which involve small areas like school garden and home garden.
hand tools
used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees.
bolo
used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps.
crowbar
used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and for digging up stones and tree stumps.
pick-mattock
used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.
grab-hoe
used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches and mixing soil media.
spade
used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another and for mixing soil media.
shovel
used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.
rake
used for loosening the soil, digging out root crops and turning over the materials in a compost heap.
spading fork
used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows for planting
light hoe
used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small amount of manure fertilizer in the soil.
hand trowel
used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing
weeds around the plant.
hand cultivator
used for inter row cultivation.
hand fork
for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants.
pruning shears
for cutting bigger size post.
axe
for cutting planting materials and for performing other operations in horticulture
knife
for watering seedlings and young
plants
sprinklers
for hauling water, manure and fertilizers
water pails
for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides
sprayers
used for hauling trash,
manures, fertilizers, planting materials and
other equipment
wheel barrow
a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for cutting weeds
sickle
