Part 4 Flashcards
Headland is:
The strip of the land at the ends of the field used for turning by field machinery
A piece of land owned and tilled by the head of family
Land at the top of the hill
None of the above
Answer: The strip of the land at the ends of the field used for turning by field machinery
An equipment used to place seed in a furrow.
Planter
Seeder
Broadcaster
All of the above
Answer: Seeder
An equipment used to place plant parts to a prepared furrow.
Planter
Seeder
Broadcaster
All of the above
Answer: Planter
A machine that prepares the soil, meters the seed, and positions the seed in one operation.
Broadcaster
Drum seeder
Jab planter
None of the above
Answer: None of the above (Drill)
A machine, which is cylindrical in shape, designed for planting pre-germinated rice seed in rows.
Broadcaster
Drum seeder
Jab planter
None of the above
Answer: Drum seeder
A scattering of seeds on the surface of prepared soil.
Drill seeding
Hill dropping
Broadcasting
None of the above
Answer: Broadcasting
It is a planting method wherein seeds are deposited, either singly or in group, in a water soluble tape under controlled condition.
Precision planting
Seed-tape planting
Hill dropping
None of the above
Answer: Seed-tape planting
It is a machine that places rice seedlings at a proper spacing on a well-prepared paddy soil.
Rice seeder
Rice transplanter
All of the above
None of the above
Answer: Rice transplanter
When Agricultural Engineer calibrates a sprayer, he:
Measures the diameter
Measures and adjust its application rate
Cleans the nozzles
None of the above
Answer: Measures and adjust its application rate
In the Philippines, rice is usually transplanted
For weed control reasons as the seedling have a head start over the weeds
To give employment to landless farm workers
To prevent rats and birds from eating the seeds
None of the above
Answer: For weed control reasons as the seedling have a head start over the weeds
A mechanically-operated machine that removes weeds or grasses from the crops.
Seeder
Weeder
Cultivator
None of the above
Answer: Weeder
It is the ratio between the number of weeds removed by the weeder to the number of weeds present per unit area.
Weeding index
Weeding rate
Weeding capacity
None of the above
Answer: Weeding index
A machine that breaks the liquid droplets of effective size and distributes them uniformly over the surface or space to be protected, and regulates the amount of chemical solution to avoid excessive application that might prove harmful or wasteful
Duster
Sparayer
All of the above
None of the above
Answer: Sprayer
Primary factor that affects the performance of the sprayer.
Spray-particle size
Spraying time
Spray materials
None of the above
Answer: Spray-particle size
It is a sprayer apparatus consisting of pressure source and controls and specifically employing an over-the-crop boom with atomizer arranged to provide uniform coverage of the treated surfaces.
Boom sprayer
Knapsack sprayer
Compressed-air sprayer
None of the above
Answer: Boom sprayer
A field sprayer that is being carried at the back by means of a shoulder straps.
Compressed-air sprayer
Knapsack sprayer
Power sprayer
None of the above
Answer: Knapsack sprayer
A mechanical or thermal device that produces a liquid dispersion having a volume median diameter of less than 50 um.
Knapsack sprayer
Aerosol generator
Compressed-air spray
None of the above
Answer: Aerosol generator
An apparatus, which consists of a hopper, a metering unit, and a distribution device, that uses either gravity, centrifugal force, or pendulum action to spread granules to the surface of the entire area to be treated.
Broadcast spreader
Granular applicator
Power sprayer
None of the above
Answer: Broadcast spreader
A machine that cuts rice stalks and places them on a windrow where they are gathered and bound into sheaves and carried to a thresher.
Scythe
Stripper harvester
Reaper
Combines
Answer: Reaper
A machine that detaches the grain from a panicle.
Reaper
Thresher
Sheller
None of the above
Answer : Thresher
A machine used in separating the kernels from the cob.
Grader
Sheller
Thresher
None of the above
Answer: Sheller
The part of a rice thresher which encloses the threshing cylinder and allows the separation of the grains from the panicle.
Threshing cylinder
Oscillating screens
Concave
None of the above
Answer: Concave
A type of mechanical thresher in which rice stalks are fed into the threshing chamber while the stalks are either mechanically-or manually-held during threshing operation.
Hold-on thresher
Throw-in thresher
Axial-flow thresher
None of the above
Answer : Hold-on thresher
A type of mechanical rice thresher which detaches and separates the grains from the panicles by feeding the rice-in-stalks into the machine.
Axial-flow thresher
Throw-in thresher
Hold-on thresher
None of the above
Answer: Throw-in thresher