Tools In Farming Flashcards
Any device or implements used to carry out mechanical functions whether manually or by a machine
Tool
These are used in land preparations
Farm Tools
An area of Land and its buildings used under one management for growing crops and rearing animals
Farm
These are objects that are usually light and are used without the help of animals and machineries.
Hand Tools
These are tools made of light materials and are used manually.
Hand Tools
• is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees.
Bolo
is used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps.
Crowbar
• is used for digging canals,breaking hard topsoil and for digging up stones and tree stumps.
Pick-mattock
is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.
Grab-hoe
is used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches and mixing soil media.
Spade
• is used in removing trash, digging, loose soil, moving soil from one place to another and for mixing soil media.
Shovel
is used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.
Rake
• is used for loosening the soil,digging out root crops and turning over the materials in a compost heap.
Spading fork
is used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows for planting
Light hoe
• is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small amount of manure fertilizer in the soil.
Hand trowel