FARM TOOLS IN AGRICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION

FARM TOOLS IN
AGRICULTURAL
CROP PRODUCTION

It makes the work much easier and faster. Hand Tools
Hand tools are 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.

Bolo

is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping Crowbar is used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and

Pick-mattock is used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and for digging up stones

Grab-hoe is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.

Spade is used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches

Shovel is used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another and for mixing soil media. Rake is used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.

Spading fork is used for loosening the soil, digging out root crops and turning over the materials

Light hoe is used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows for planting

Hand trowel is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small amount of manure fertilizer in the soil.

Hand cultivator is used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing weeds around the plant.

Hand fork

is used for inter row cultivation. Pruning shears is for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants.

Axe

is for cutting bigger size

Knife is for cutting planting materials and for performing other operations in horticulture Sprinklers for watering seedlings and young plants.

Water pails for hauling water, manure and fertilizers.

Sprayers are for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides Wheel barrow is used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials and

Sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for cutting weeds.